Am 1. November 2025 12:01:28 UTC schrieb Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>:
>This series adds KVM support to the imx8mp-evk machine, allowing it to run
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>guests with KVM acceleration. Inspiration was taken from the virt machine. This
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>required a device tree quirk for the guest clock to be kept in sync with the
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>host. Without this quirk the guest's clock would advance with factor <host
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>system counter> / 8Mhz.
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>Testing done:
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>* Run `make check`
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>* Run Buildroot image with TCG
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>* Run `qemu-system-aarch64 -M imx8mp-evk -accel kvm -smp 4` under
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> `qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt,secure=on,virtualization=on,gic-version=4 \
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> -cpu cortex-a72 -smp 4 -accel tcg` and `qemu-system-aarch64 -M imx8mp-evk \
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> -accel tcg -smp 4". Observe that the `date` command reflects the host's date.
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>v3:
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>* Fix crash in qtest (Peter) by using cortex-a53 CPU when ms->cpu_type == NULL
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>* Apply Peter's style fixes in board documentation
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>* Apply Phil's R-b -- thanks!
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>* Rebase onto master
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Is there still a chance to get this series into 10.2? Soft feature freeze is
tomorrow.
Best regards,
Bernhard
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>v2:
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>* Rebase onto master
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>* Mention various tradeoffs in the board documentation (Peter)
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>* Accommodate for single-binary (Peter, Pierrick) by having CPU defaults
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>* Add quirk to fix guest clock
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>Bernhard Beschow (2):
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> hw/arm/imx8mp-evk: Add KVM support
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> hw/arm/imx8mp-evk: Fix guest time in KVM mode
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> docs/system/arm/imx8mp-evk.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
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> hw/arm/fsl-imx8mp.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
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> hw/arm/imx8mp-evk.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
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> hw/arm/Kconfig | 3 ++-
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> 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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>2.51.2
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