Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2018 11:37:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Stefan Wahren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm: bcm2835: Add the PMU to the devicetree. |
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Hi Marc,
> Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> hat am 18. Mai 2018 um 10:07 geschrieben: > > I have a pretty simple series[1] which I used to profile 32bit guests on > an arm64 KVM host. Nobody really cared about it because running a 32bit > kernel on 64bit HW is a bit odd, to say the least, and I'm probably the > only one actually running 32bit VMs. > > > FWIW, Broadcom STB chips, even when 64-bit capable or often used with an > > 32-bit ARM kernel, so having the ARMv8 PMUs work under a 32-bit ARM > > kernel would be great. The downstream solution we have sued thus far is > > to find the closest compatible string to represent those, which is not > > great... > Ah, so you're *really* doing that? I'm not going to ask why, I'm scared > of the answer... ;-) > > Anyway, I can repost that series if that will prevent people from having > that kind of silly hacks.
yes please. But there is a minor nit: some patches introduce new files without SPDX tags.
Thanks Stefan
> > Thanks, > > M. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=kvm-arm/pmuv3-32bit > -- > Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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