Re: PPC: RFC: proposal for VM reset & shutdown hcall (v4)

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 07/03/2013 02:32:07 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 03.07.2013, at 21:29, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> 
> > Version 4 changes
> >   -clarified that KVM zeros the upper half of the struct fields
> >    if the VM is not in 64-bit mode
> >
> >  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > KVM_CAP_EXIT_EPAPR_HCALL  Capability
> >
> > A new capability KVM_CAP_EXIT_EPAPR_HCALL is defined to advertise
> > the new KVM_EXIT_EPAPR_HCALL exit .
> >
> >  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > KVM_EXIT_EPAPR_HCALL exit definition
> >
> >                /* KVM_EXIT_EPAPR_HCALL */
> >                struct {
> >                        __u64 nr;
> >                        __u64 ret;
> >                        __u64 args[8];
> >                } epapr_hcall;
> >
> > This is used on Power/PowerPC platforms that support ePAPR hcalls.
> 
> This still says Power :(. It's either POWER or PowerPC. There is no  
> "Power" platform :). As mentioned before, I think "PowerPC" is good  
> enough to cover everything.

Tell that to power.org. :-)

That said, in the context of Linux, we still call it powerpc.

-Scott