From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:10:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts Message-Id: <1247051429.6066.186.camel@pasglop> List-Id: References: <1246976262-4826-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1246976262-4826-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 10:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > What about userspace applications that use dcbz? That's generally the killer... but then, MOL was only ever implemented on ppc32 so we never had the problem. > But to run Mac OS X we first have to fix quite a lot of qemu stuff > anyways ;-). It might also make sense to only run osx in PPC32 mode, > as the PPC64 one doesn't add that much value. Yeah :-) We can pick stuff from MOL if we want to though, as it was all GPL. > Which is all the same from my code's perspective. Host segments are > just mapped unconditionally while the real handling happens on a per- > page basis. So if the guest sets NX on a segment, it ends up as NX in > every host page we map. Ok. Cheers, Ben.