From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnnVU-00008F-KJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 07:19:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnnVN-0007FI-5S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 07:19:24 -0400 Message-ID: <537F2EAF.1050801@suse.de> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:19:11 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1400812018-23430-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> In-Reply-To: <1400812018-23430-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] spapr: Enable ibm, client-architecture-support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexey Kardashevskiy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org On 23.05.14 04:26, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > This enables a ibm,client-architecture-support RTAS call. > > This allows older distros (such as SLES11 or RHEL6) to work on modern > POWERPC hardware (such as POWER8) in "architected" mode. > > Changelog for v3 is in "spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm,client-architecture-support" > and that is the only change. > > Please comment. Thank you. Thanks, applied to ppc-next. One thing I realized while reading through those patches again is that we don't document any of the -machine or -cpu special options for ppc. I think we should properly mention those in the man page so that people have a chance to know about them :). Alex