Re: [PATCH 8/8 v3] KVM: PPC: e500: Add e6500 core to Kconfig description

tiejun.chen
2013-04-25T09:49:46Z

On 04/25/2013 05:32 PM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tiejun.chen [mailto:tiejun.chen@windriver.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:17 PM
>> To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
>> Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8 v3] KVM: PPC: e500: Add e6500 core to Kconfig
>> description
>>
>> On 04/25/2013 05:09 PM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: tiejun.chen [mailto:tiejun.chen@windriver.com]
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 1:03 PM
>>>> To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
>>>> Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8 v3] KVM: PPC: e500: Add e6500 core to Kconfig
>>>> description
>>>>
>>>> On 04/11/2013 06:03 PM, Mihai Caraman wrote:
>>>>> Add e6500 core to Kconfig description.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v3:
>>>>> - No change
>>>>>
>>>>> arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 6 +++---
>>>>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
>>>>> index 63c67ec..4489520 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -136,15 +136,15 @@ config KVM_E500V2
>>>>> If unsure, say N.
>>>>>
>>>>> config KVM_E500MC
>>>>> - bool "KVM support for PowerPC E500MC/E5500 processors"
>>>>> + bool "KVM support for PowerPC E500MC/E5500/E6500 processors"
>>>>> depends on PPC_E500MC
>>>>> select KVM
>>>>> select KVM_MMIO
>>>>> select KVM_BOOKE_HV
>>>>> select MMU_NOTIFIER
>>>>> ---help---
>>>>> - Support running unmodified E500MC/E5500 (32-bit) guest kernels in
>>>>
>>>> I ever tried p5040ds but failed with 64-bit, but looks are you saying
>>>> this patch
>>>> set can make e5500/e6500 work well with 64-bit? If so, will we need to
>>>> upgrade
>>>> qemu or something else like dtb?
>>>
>>> KVM should work on p5040ds with and without this patchset. The latest
>>> qemu requires this patch: "powerpc: Add paravirt idle loop for 64-bit
>> Book-E",
>>> you will not pass guest udev without it.
>
> This is a kernel patch required by latest qemu.

Looks this commit is applied only into galak/powerpc.git, next, but still not
merged into agraf/linux-2.6.git, so I'm confused which tree can support 64bit
Book3E KVM as you point.

Tiejun