Bug 1087005 - update to rc2 and add support for aarch64
Summary: update to rc2 and add support for aarch64
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-12 17:26 UTC by solanum
Modified: 2014-04-13 22:57 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-04-13 22:57:23 UTC
Type: Bug
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add rc2 and aarch64 support (5.58 KB, patch)
2014-04-12 17:26 UTC, solanum
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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


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