From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQc1a-00074h-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:52:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQc1S-0002iu-Aw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:52:26 -0400 Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <52496601.6040500@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:52:33 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1380269200-8194-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <67325DB7-EF06-49CD-BA79-6B44BCC20140@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <67325DB7-EF06-49CD-BA79-6B44BCC20140@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add "compat" machine option List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Nikunj A Dadhania , Alexey Kardashevskiy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Mackerras , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= Il 30/09/2013 13:25, Alexander Graf ha scritto: > On 27.09.2013, at 10:06, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> > To be able to boot on newer hardware that the software support, >> > PowerISA defines a logical PVR, one per every PowerISA specification >> > version from 2.04. >> > >> > This adds the "compat" option which takes values 205 or 206 and forces >> > QEMU to boot the guest with a logical PVR (CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_05 or >> > CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_06). >> > >> > The guest reads the logical PVR value from "cpu-version" property of >> > a CPU device node. >> > Why is the option under -machine instead of -cpu? Paolo