Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG baremetal tests repo

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 24 June 2015 at 17:39, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Alexander Spyridakis <address@hidden> writes:
>>> You can find the latest tcg atomic test payload in the following repo:
>>>> git clone https://git.virtualopensystems.com/dev/tcg_baremetal_tests.git
>>>
>>> You also need an arm baremetal cross-compiler like arm-none-gnueabi- (arm)
>>> and the usual aarch64-linux-gnu- (arm64). Due to a PSCI bug in the current
>>> multithreading tcg repo, the atomic test was modified to work also on the
>>> vexpress machine model.
>>
>> I sent a patch to fix the PSCI hang case to wake up the sleeping CPU. I
>> couldn't figure out how the vexpress code was waking it's CPUs. Do they
>> just start powered on?
>
> Yes -- our vexpress model is "like hardware", so all CPUs leap into
> the boot firmware at once, and the firmware deals with putting the
> secondaries into a pen to be released in a controlled manner later.
> [assuming you're not using -kernel; if you are then boot.c has the
> secondary pen code]

Ahh good. No mystery to solve then ;-)

-- 
Alex Bennée