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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] powerpc: add PVR mask support
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] powerpc: add PVR mask support |
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Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:57:04 +0100 |
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Am 27.09.2013 09:05, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy:
> IBM POWERPC processors encode PVR as a CPU family in higher 16 bits and
> a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change
> in behavior between versions, there is no point to add every single CPU
> version in QEMU's CPU list. Also, new CPU versions of already supported
> CPU won't break the existing code.
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> This adds PVR value/mask support for KVM, i.e. for -cpu host option.
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> As CPU family class name for POWER7 is "POWER7-family", there is no need
> to touch aliases.
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> Cc: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
As promised to Paul, using the Hackathon timeslot to review this:
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
and sorry for the delay.
Regards,
Andreas
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