Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v0] spapr: Restore support for older PowerPC CPU cores

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Introduction of core based CPU hotplug for PowerPC sPAPR didn't
> add support for 970 and POWER5+ based core types. Add support for
> the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to ppc-for-2.7

> ---
> TODO:
> - There are few other variants of 970, like 970fx etc for which I have not
>   added core types since I am not sure if they fall under sPAPR category.

Yeah, frankly I wouldn't really trust the spapr code with anything
except POWER7 or POWER8.

> - Is it time to add core type for POWER8NVL yet ?

Yes.

>  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> index 8b802a6..cebeef5 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> @@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ static void spapr_cpu_core_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>  
>  /*
>   * instance_init routines from different flavours of sPAPR CPU cores.
> - * TODO: Add support for 'host' core type.
>   */
>  #define SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(_type, _fname) \
>  static void glue(glue(spapr_cpu_core_, _fname), _initfn(Object *obj)) \
> @@ -338,6 +337,8 @@ static void glue(glue(spapr_cpu_core_, _fname), _initfn(Object *obj)) \
>      core->cpu_class = oc; \
>  }
>  
> +SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(970_v2.2, 970);
> +SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(POWER5+_v2.1, POWER5plus);
>  SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(POWER7_v2.3, POWER7);
>  SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(POWER7+_v2.1, POWER7plus);
>  SPAPR_CPU_CORE_INITFN(POWER8_v2.0, POWER8);
> @@ -349,6 +350,12 @@ typedef struct SPAPRCoreInfo {
>  } SPAPRCoreInfo;
>  
>  static const SPAPRCoreInfo spapr_cores[] = {
> +    /* 970 */
> +    { .name = "970", .initfn = spapr_cpu_core_970_initfn },
> +
> +    /* POWER5 */
> +    { .name = "POWER5+", .initfn = spapr_cpu_core_POWER5plus_initfn },
> +
>      /* POWER7 and aliases */
>      { .name = "POWER7_v2.3", .initfn = spapr_cpu_core_POWER7_initfn },
>      { .name = "POWER7", .initfn = spapr_cpu_core_POWER7_initfn },

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