Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] powerpc: add PVR mask support

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.10.2013, at 07:57, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> This adds PVR value/mask support for KVM, i.e. for -cpu host option.
>> 
>> As CPU family class name for POWER7 is "POWER7-family", there is no need
>> to touch aliases.
>> 
>> 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>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next-1.8


Alex