From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqFU4-0001bJ-Cn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 02:40:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqFTz-0001nt-7z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 02:40:36 -0400 Received: from mailout1.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.11]:60630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqFTy-0001ng-RS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 02:40:31 -0400 Received: from eucpsbgm1.samsung.com (unknown [203.254.199.244]) by mailout1.w1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.31.0 64bit (built May 5 2014)) with ESMTP id <0NNY00LS2VVGZY60@mailout1.w1.samsung.com> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 07:40:28 +0100 (BST) From: Pavel Fedin References: <1430921082-16779-1-git-send-email-shlomopongratz@gmail.com> <1430921082-16779-5-git-send-email-shlomopongratz@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <1430921082-16779-5-git-send-email-shlomopongratz@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 09:40:27 +0300 Message-id: <00bd01d08890$b4d60f20$1e822d60$@samsung.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-language: ru Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC V2 4/4] Add virtv2 machine that uses GIC-500 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: shlomopongratz@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, 'Shlomo Pongratz' Hello! Why do we need 'virt2' ? I am currently working on testing your implementation, and i try to use different approach. I see this as '-machine virt,gicv=N' option, where N is 2 or 3. Isn't it better than duplicating the whole virt.c code just for single different function ? Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia