From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsPxk-0005Ob-7S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 03:53:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsPxg-0003v1-3e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 03:52:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:11:01 +1100 From: David Gibson Message-ID: <20161007051101.GW18490@umbus.fritz.box> References: <1475479496-16158-1-git-send-email-clg@kaod.org> <1475479496-16158-4-git-send-email-clg@kaod.org> <20161007043221.GS18490@umbus.fritz.box> <1475816512.3784.244.camel@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="APvmIexg9DiduZOF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1475816512.3784.244.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/20] ppc/pnv: add a core mask to PnvChip List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Le Goater , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org --APvmIexg9DiduZOF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:01:52PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:32 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:24:39AM +0200, C=E9dric Le Goater wrote: > > > This will be used to build real HW ids for the cores and enforce > > some > > > limits on the available cores per chip. > >=20 > > Is there actually a practical reason to allow the user (or machine > > type) to override the default core mask? >=20 > None other than mimmicing real HW ... some cores can be disabled > on some chips and we *might* want to mimmic that for some test > scenarios. Ok, sounds like a good enough reason to me. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --APvmIexg9DiduZOF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJX9y5lAAoJEGw4ysog2bOScpgQAKcT9WfEvSbXJYDFbqXueVIi 0mrfuTBZlda9hUUJCuaViZRdmoTsy5tj1fl3mx10YX/unffnbB+GraPBgfr6uSr3 8+SP+RyYuv07F0xmZsjJuYvESK6GzlvuH3q9fgCw7rhwBF/GlV9ReHFFsj5Pi5Q4 cURDeLgT+bJKtDT31rLjvxjONAk9htNauImOxNsRfGRFhTxIM1kB4e2ZsGzCZuDI hbdnCU2d9e+70KD+QmqPP7/6AOvED1znlreiBoEVJQTEK7fwCE6QIU8BI87rtxCy Kobbc9pdbz1K2bO8f7YvFI3Ej0IKZ6F5qGq5YE/Tbj3FmZj/0mP1IxMK72JaGdZg x0iXGEH6d95sUFXfp8pZrLBaRzQImWvNda+cpIsN0MtoeTYkqkN6DVwOVLG3vmLS JmwIPNU+NBi3LMGcSALsoMG53FHRyHqc593WIMIKBjwk6LJuszMADBnqdc6WJDQE 6fkMEZbrABZnszUYiwcnhr72cOaBMdBuZHoyv58vDjq7al6hcogkUIXuSau3vmCv 34QUJeI1yogD9L4/fkULa05plDxcvFctFxXirGkb7zRy9ytCATgnFFAwxI+oySJ0 THu1FiBmFN2HhcM9fyh3G2+CGEp6d1gMfutCxHgSi5HWmWCXE9FEdyVmlPvmzPYw 8C6I2WH3+LXyMeXjNSQd =m1a+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --APvmIexg9DiduZOF--