Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm: bcm2835: Add the PMU to the devicetree. | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Date | Fri, 18 May 2018 10:49:17 +0100 |
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On 18/05/18 10:37, Stefan Wahren wrote: > 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. I'm shocked! ;-)
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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