On 25 June 2015 at 13:41, Christoffer Dall <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:06:20AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I agree it's not very likely anybody cares about the specific cluster >> topology. However if we don't want to support arbitrary topologies >> then QEMU is going to end up in the business of editing the user >> supplied device tree blob to make its cpu definitions match up with >> whatever the kernel provides, which could be pretty tedious. >> > I see, then you can't easily contruct a machine and a DT in one go > before talking to KVM.
Also the "use upstream's kernel and its associated dtb with a model that matches real hardware" use case would require either DTB editing or getting the kernel to handle the topology of the thing we're modelling. -- PMM
