Re: [PATCH] kvm/ppc/booke64: fix build breakage from Altivec, and disable e6500

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 05/10/2013 01:03:27 PM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kvm-ppc-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ppc-
> > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Graf
> > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:51 PM
> > To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
> > Cc: Wood Scott-B07421; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm/ppc/booke64: fix build breakage from  
> Altivec,
> > and disable e6500
> >
> >
> > On 10.05.2013, at 18:50, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> >
> > >>> Do we really need to remove e6500 all together for this?
> > >>
> > >> No, just send real Altivec support quickly. We can add it to 3.10
> > through
> > >> stable if it's too later, but I'd prefer to have it in within  
> the rc
> > >> phase.
> > >
> > > I should have it by Monday, the smoke tests passed.
> >
> > Please make sure it also works on 32bit :)
> 
> I can make sure that it doesn't break 32-bit. Altivec is not present  
> in
> e500v2/e500mc/e5500 cores and e6500 is supported only by 64-bit host.  
> Are
> you looking for G4 support?

Just because Altivec isn't present on 32-bit doesn't mean that a  
particular patch can't break things there.  Just as a patch to deal  
with lazy ee issues can break 32-bit, even though 32-bit doesn't have  
lazy ee. :-)

-Scott