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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:14:51 -0500

Already in 1.6:

commit a7d6b9f084765a834110bb9a2a0329b1a96de792
Author: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Aug 5 22:59:46 2013 +0200

    target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 05.08.2013, at 22:59, Andreas Färber wrote:
>
>> Commit 03a15a5436ed7723f406f15cc3798aa9991e75b5 claimed to add a POWER7+
>> model but instead added a "POWER7P" model, with an unhelpful "POWER7P"
>> description on top. Fix this to "POWER7+" as we already have "POWER3+",
>> "POWER4+" and "POWER5+" and there being no reason to deviate with the
>> user-visible command line -cpu POWER7P from the marketing name POWER7+.
>>
>> Further, don't needlessly deviate from the scheme of naming PVR constant,
>> QOM type and device description after the exact revision that is in fact
>> encoded in the PVR used.
>> That way, we can change the user-friendly alias -cpu POWER7+ to point to a
>> different revision if we so desire, while not polluting the type namespace.
>>
>> This naming scheme is sensible and completely orthogonal to how PVRs may
>> or may not get matched to CPU types.
>>
>> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
>
> Thanks, applied to ppc-next and added a CC to qemu-stable so it gets into 
> 1.6.1.
>
>
> Alex
>



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