On 2015/5/28 2:03, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! > >> I think encoding should be CPU type specific i.e. not defined by what >> GIC can support and once we add CPU type with 8 cores, it would provide >> it's own version of mpidr_read since it would be defined by spec >> how to encode aff0. > > I have redone this thing from scratch: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg04495.html > My implementation does exactly this. It simply introduces CPU-specific MPIDR > value which > CPUs can set as they wish.
IIUC, your implementation also uses 8 cpus per cluster which is not consistent with CPU spec. > Also this is used by KVM because KVM has its own ideas about > how CPUs are clustered. > I posted that without RFC, because i think it's ready for application, but my > message > seems to have been lost. Looks like i forgot Cc to the maintainer. My current > vGICv3 > work-in-progress is based on this. > If Shlomo does not respond until friday, i think i'll post a new vGICv3 > series based on > master. > I guess we should give people time to do the respin or other things. > Kind regards, > Pavel Fedin > Expert Engineer > Samsung Electronics Research center Russia > > > -- Shannon
