Bug 1087005

Summary: update to rc2 and add support for aarch64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: solanum <omalley_s>
Component: qemuAssignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dwmw2, itamar, pbonzini, rjones, scottt.tw, virt-maint
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add rc2 and aarch64 support none

Description solanum 2014-04-12 17:26:18 UTC
Created attachment 885757 [details]
add rc2 and aarch64 support

This patch adds preliminary qemu-system-aarch64 support, as well as updates to rc2 of qemu. Let me know if there is an issue. I can't test it without an image (which doesn't exist to my knowledge), but it is easier to work with an existing packaged binary even if it is buggy.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-04-12 18:33:33 UTC
Out of interest, why is patch2 commented out?

Comment 2 solanum 2014-04-12 19:31:28 UTC
It failed to apply. I assume it was added upstream. I did not double check it to verify it and probably should have.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2014-04-13 22:57:23 UTC
Thanks for the report. I'll be updating to qemu 2.0.0 final when it's released next week, so I'm skipping rc2.

However qemu-system-aarch64 that will be shipped with qemu 2.0 isn't going to be all that interesting: there's no platform or usable CPU emulation as far as I understand. Even if you use one of the existing aarch64 images that is floating around, you still need non-upstream patches to do anything useful.

So I'd rather not ship it until it's at least partly end user interesting, to avoid bug reports about it 'not working'. I am however watching upstream developments and will turn it on when it's useful. I submitted an F21 feature to track that as well:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_64bit_ARM_on_x86