Re: [PATCH] arm: bcm2835: Add the PMU to the devicetree.

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Fri May 18 2018 - 04:53:06 EST


On 18/05/18 10:37, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
>> Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> hat am 18. Mai 2018 um 10:07 geschrieben:
>>
>> I have a pretty simple series[1] which I used to profile 32bit guests on
>> an arm64 KVM host. Nobody really cared about it because running a 32bit
>> kernel on 64bit HW is a bit odd, to say the least, and I'm probably the
>> only one actually running 32bit VMs.
>>
>>> FWIW, Broadcom STB chips, even when 64-bit capable or often used with an
>>> 32-bit ARM kernel, so having the ARMv8 PMUs work under a 32-bit ARM
>>> kernel would be great. The downstream solution we have sued thus far is
>>> to find the closest compatible string to represent those, which is not
>>> great...
>> Ah, so you're *really* doing that? I'm not going to ask why, I'm scared
>> of the answer... ;-)
>>
>> Anyway, I can repost that series if that will prevent people from having
>> that kind of silly hacks.
>
> yes please. But there is a minor nit: some patches introduce new files without SPDX tags.
I'm shocked! ;-)

M.
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