| Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:28:00 +0200 | Subject | Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v3 13/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support | From | Alexander Spyridakis <> |
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On 1 September 2014 19:35, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote: > > On 01/09/14 15:57, Hanjun Guo wrote: > > From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> > > > > ACPI kernel uses MADT table for proper GIC initialization. It needs to > > parse GIC related subtables, collect CPU interface and distributor > > addresses and call driver initialization function (which is hardware > > abstraction agnostic). In a similar way, FDT initialize GICv1/2. > > > > NOTE: This commit allow to initialize GICv1/2 only. > > I cannot help but notice that there is no support for KVM here. It'd be > good to add a note to that effect, so that people do not expect > virtualization support to be working when booting with ACPI.
Just a heads up for this, I run up to this problem too while testing and by forcing some values for vgic and arch_timers I could boot a QEMU guest without problems.
I'll try and see if it will be easy to handle this more properly instead of hardcoded values.
Regards.
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