Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

[Alexander Graf]

On 29.06.2012, at 15:55, Eli Lewis wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I would like to use qemu to emulate a muliticore PowerPC  PReP machine but it 
> see that the SMP is not
> supported for the PReP architecture. In fact, running:
> 
> 
> qemu-system-ppc -M prep -smp 2
> 
> It returns this message:
> 
> 
> Number of SMP cpus requested (2), exceeds max cpus supported by machine 
> `prep' (1)
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if this functionality is under development or if there is a 
> patch that
> solves this problem? 

CC'ing Andreas, the PREP maintainer.

My rough estimate would be a simple "no, unless you do it" though :). Why would 
you need emulated SMP on PReP?


Alex