From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "tiejun.chen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8 v3] KVM: PPC: e500: Add e6500 core to Kconfig description Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:49:46 +0800 Message-ID: <5178FC3A.8090407@windriver.com> References: <300B73AA675FCE4A93EB4FC1D42459FF3D94D7@039-SN2MPN1-013.039d.mgd.msft.net> <5178F483.9010001@windriver.com> <300B73AA675FCE4A93EB4FC1D42459FF3D967A@039-SN2MPN1-013.039d.mgd.msft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <300B73AA675FCE4A93EB4FC1D42459FF3D967A@039-SN2MPN1-013.039d.mgd.msft.net> Sender: kvm-ppc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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 >>>>> --- >>>>> 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