Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 03/20] ppc/pnv: add a core mask to PnvChip

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:32 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:24:39AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > This will be used to build real HW ids for the cores and enforce
> some
> > limits on the available cores per chip.
> 
> Is there actually a practical reason to allow the user (or machine
> type) to override the default core mask?

None other than mimmicing real HW ... some cores can be disabled
on some chips and we *might* want to mimmic that for some test
scenarios.

Cheers,
Ben.