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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:10:41 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: pass the virtual SEI syndrome to guest OS
To: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
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On 21 March 2017 at 19:39, Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> wrote:
> My confusion here comes from not thinking about QEMU or KVM as firmware,
> but as the machine, so it would be sort of like the functionality is
> baked into hardware rather than firmware.

There is precedent for that kind of thing -- we implement PSCI
in KVM/QEMU for the guest, though in real hardware it would be
provided by firmware at EL3.

thanks
-- PMM