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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add versions to server CPU descriptions
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F6FA53.5080106@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425432686-29851-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>



On 04.03.15 02:31, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 5b79b1c "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU class per family if KVM" added
> a dynamic CPU class registration with the name of the CPU family which
> QEMU is running on. For example, this allowed specifying "-cpu POWER7"
> on every version of POWER7 machine, not just the one which POWER7 was
> an alias of. I.e. before 5b79b1c, "-cpu POWER7" would not work on real
> POWER7 2.1 and would work on POWER7 2.3 only. The same story for POWER8.
> 
> However that patch broke POWER5+ support as POWER5+ CPU uses the same
> name as the CPU class so dynamic registering of the POWER5+ class failed.
> 
> This redefines POWER5+ server CPUs by adding a version to them and adding
> an alias for TCG case. KVM will use dynamically registered CPUs.
> 
> While we are here, do the same for 970 CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next.


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-04 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04  1:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add versions to server CPU descriptions Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-03-04 12:28 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2015-03-04 14:14   ` Andreas Färber
2015-03-04 14:48     ` Alexander Graf
2015-03-04 23:26     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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