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

Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2013-04-25T09:09:11Z

> -----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.
Please details what fails on p5040ds.

-Mike