Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] target-ppc: move POWER7+ to a separate family

[Alexander Graf]

On 19.11.2013, at 02:39, Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:

> So far POWER7+ was a part of POWER7 family. However it has a different
> PVR base value so in order to support PVR masks, it needs a separate
> family class.
> 
> This adds a new family class, PVR base and mask values and moves
> Power7+ v2.1 CPU to a new family. The class init function is copied
> from the POWER7 family.
> 
> This defines a firmware name for the new family as "PowerPC,POWER7+"
> instead of previously used "PowerPC,POWER7" from the POWER7 family.
> The reason for that is that the Sapphire firmware (a h0st firmware)
> uses "PowerPC,POWER7+" already and since no specification defines
> exactly the CPU nodes naming in the device tree, we better stay
> in sync with the host firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next.


Alex