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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add versions to server CPU descript
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add versions to server CPU descriptions |
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Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:28:03 +0100 |
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On 04.03.15 02:31, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 5b79b1c "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU class per family if KVM" added
> a dynamic CPU class registration with the name of the CPU family which
> QEMU is running on. For example, this allowed specifying "-cpu POWER7"
> on every version of POWER7 machine, not just the one which POWER7 was
> an alias of. I.e. before 5b79b1c, "-cpu POWER7" would not work on real
> POWER7 2.1 and would work on POWER7 2.3 only. The same story for POWER8.
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> However that patch broke POWER5+ support as POWER5+ CPU uses the same
> name as the CPU class so dynamic registering of the POWER5+ class failed.
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> This redefines POWER5+ server CPUs by adding a version to them and adding
> an alias for TCG case. KVM will use dynamically registered CPUs.
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> While we are here, do the same for 970 CPU.
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> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
Thanks, applied to ppc-next.
Alex