Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Avoid printing wrong aliases in CPU help text

[David Gibson]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 06:19:32AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> When running with KVM, we update the "family" CPU alias to point
> to the right host CPU type, so that it for example possible to
> use "-cpu POWER8" on a POWER8NVL host. However, the function for
> printing the list of available CPU models is called earlier than
> the KVM setup code, so the output of "-cpu help" is wrong in that
> case. Since it would be somewhat ugly anyway to have different
> help texts depending on whether "-enable-kvm" has been specified
> or not, we should better always print the same text, so fix this
> issue by printing "alias for preferred XXX CPU" instead.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Applied to ppc-for-2.10, thanks.

Just after today's pull request, I'm afraid, but I really wanted to
get that out because it has some vital POWER9 fixes.

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