Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 0/9] Core based CPU hotplug for PowerPC sPAPR

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16.06.2016 05:49, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 04:04:14PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:14:14PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 06:28:59AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This is the next version of the CPU hotplug patchset for PowerPC
>>>> sPAPR target. The hotplug semantics looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> (qemu) device_add POWER8E-spapr-cpu-core,id=core2,core-id=16[,threads=4]
>>>> (qemu) device_add host-spapr-cpu-core,id=core2,core-id=16[,threads=4]
>>>> (qemu) device_add
>>>> POWER8E_v2.1-spapr-cpu-core,id=core2,core-id=16[,threads=4]
>>>
>>> I've merged these to my ppc-cpu-hotplug branch, and I'm doing some
>>> testing.  It it checks out, I hope to send a pull request.
>>
>> I've now merged this into my main ppc-for-2.7 branch.  I'll be doing
>> some testing, obviously, but I'd certain appreciate any other tests of
>> this branch with the hotplug code.
> 
> David, I don't see the unplug patch in your tree, intentional ?
> 
> Also I am working on supporting the CPU compat settings with the following
> semantics:
> 
> -cpu host,power7 -device host-spapr-cpu-core,compat-cpu=power7

I think the old syntax was something like:

 -cpu POWER8,compat=power7

So maybe keep that "compat=" prefix for both options?

 Thomas