Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-09-04 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 08/28/2013 09:01 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 08/28/2013 08:49 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 28.08.2013 12:37, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy: >>> IBM POWERPC processors encode PVR as a CPU family in higher 16 bits and >>> a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant cha

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-08-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 14:52 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > We are going to need a way to do that for pseries guests. So for > example if we are running on a POWER8 machine and using KVM, we would > want to be able to tell qemu that we want a POWER7 machine and have > qemu put 0x0f03 in the dev

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-08-28 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:33:07PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:49:27PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > > > According to the only reply I received, it's "POWER7", not "POWER7+" - > > see my patch description. If that information was wrong, we'll need to > > move POWER7P

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-08-28 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:49:27PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > According to the only reply I received, it's "POWER7", not "POWER7+" - > see my patch description. If that information was wrong, we'll need to > move POWER7P introduction before my fw_name patch and update it accordingly. It shoul

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-08-28 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 08/28/2013 08:49 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 28.08.2013 12:37, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy: >> IBM POWERPC processors encode PVR as a CPU family in higher 16 bits and >> a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change >> in behavior between versions, there is no point to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] powerpc: add PVR mask support

2013-08-28 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 28.08.2013 12:37, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy: > IBM POWERPC processors encode PVR as a CPU family in higher 16 bits and > a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change > in behavior between versions, there is no point to add every single CPU > version in QEMU's CPU list.