JUNO SoC provides additional support for virtualization except Cortex-A57/A53 as follows:The CoreLink GIC-400.Stage 2 page table translation for masters, that the following provide:A CoreLink MMU-401 System Memory Management Unit (SMMU) for the following: - The Embedded Trace Router (ETR). - PCI Express. - Each HDLCD controller. - The DMA-330. - Thin Links, TLX-400.A CoreLink MMU-400 SMMU for the Mali-T624 GPU.Note: The MMU-400 does not support the AArch64 page table format.
1. Since MMU-400 is only compatible with ARMv7 LPAE page table formats, why does it connect with Mali-T624 GPU for virtualization in a ARMv8 SoC?2. MMU-401 is compatible with ARMv7 and ARMv8, but it only supports Stage 2 address translation. I find that Stage 1 address translation is mainly useful for memory fragmentation management and Stage 2 address translation is intended to benefit Virtual Machine Monitors from System-MMU-Whitepaper-v8.0.pdf. The masters that connect with MMU-401 in JUNO SoC don't have their own MMU, so do the outside SMMUs need also support Stage 1 address translation for memory fragmentation management and virtualization?Does Stage 2 address translation also support memory fragmentation management?
3.Why not directly use MMU-500 for virtualization in JUNO SoC?
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