Re: [RFC] bootwrapper: Add support for the TC1 and TC2 CoreTiles

2012-12-19 Thread Liviu Dudau
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:42:08PM +, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > On 18 December 2012 12:10, Liviu Dudau > mailto:liviu.du...@arm.com>> wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Could you explain with a bit more detail what's the intended usage > scenario for this code? > > If you have BootMonitor, it is

Re: [kvmarm] [RFC] bootwrapper: Add support for the TC1 and TC2 CoreTiles

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Maydell
On 18 December 2012 16:42, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > On 18 December 2012 12:10, Liviu Dudau wrote: >> If you have BootMonitor, it is already capable of booting the kernel. > The major difference is that BootMonitor doesn't initialize Hyp mode and > without it we can't start KVM. It would be

Re: [RFC] bootwrapper: Add support for the TC1 and TC2 CoreTiles

2012-12-18 Thread Alexander Spyridakis
On 18 December 2012 12:10, Liviu Dudau wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Could you explain with a bit more detail what's the intended usage > scenario for this code? > > If you have BootMonitor, it is already capable of booting the kernel. > The major difference is that BootMonitor doesn't initialize

Re: [RFC] bootwrapper: Add support for the TC1 and TC2 CoreTiles

2012-12-18 Thread Liviu Dudau
Hi Alexander, Could you explain with a bit more detail what's the intended usage scenario for this code? If you have BootMonitor, it is already capable of booting the kernel. Regards, Liviu On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:35:10PM +, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > - A new output binary (board.a

[RFC] bootwrapper: Add support for the TC1 and TC2 CoreTiles

2012-12-17 Thread Alexander Spyridakis
- A new output binary (board.axf) has been added exclusively for board usage, which uses a different linker script (board.lds.S). - BootMonitor has already placed secondary CPUs in wfi state, generate a software interrupt first and point other cores to jump to the right location by writing th