On 16 January 2018 at 10:41, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 15.01.2018 13:00, BALATON Zoltan wrote: > [...] >> I've also noticed that most of the boards were available both in ppcemb >> and ppc targets so maybe these could be merged now to avoid confusion >> but I don't know the reason why ppcemb existed in the first place so I >> don't know what other implications dropping ppcemb may have. > > FYI: I've had a chat with Alexander Graf this morning in IRC, and the > qemu-system-ppcemb was indeed only created for supporting the CPUs with > page sizes < 4k. Everything else is supposed to work with > qemu-system-ppc, too. Since likely nobody is using page sizes < 4k on > embedded PPCs nowadays anymore (and Alex was also only aware of one > home-brew OS that did this in the past is likely not available now > anymore), I think we can go forward and start the deprecation of ppcemb.
We do now support runtime-settable page sizes (as a board model property), so you could roll support for 1K pages into ppc-softmmu/ppc64-softmmu if you wanted. thanks -- PMM
