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From: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, clg@kaod.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst: document KVM support status
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:31:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211130133153.444601-3-danielhb413@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211130133153.444601-1-danielhb413@gmail.com>

Put in a more accessible place the reasoning behind our decision
to officially drop KVM support in the powernv machine.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
---
 docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst b/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
index 86186b7d2c..8304e85c51 100644
--- a/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
+++ b/docs/system/ppc/powernv.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ Prebuilt images of ``skiboot`` and ``skiroot`` are made available on the `OpenPO
 QEMU includes a prebuilt image of ``skiboot`` which is updated when a
 more recent version is required by the models.
 
+Current acceleration status
+---------------------------
+
+KVM acceleration in Linux Power hosts is provided by the kvm-hv and
+kvm-pr modules. kvm-hv is adherent to PAPR and it's not compliant with
+powernv. kvm-pr in theory could be used as a valid accel option but
+this isn't supported by kvm-pr at this moment.
+
+To spare users from dealing with not so informative errors when attempting
+to use accel=kvm, the powernv machine will throw an error informing that
+KVM is not supported. This can be revisited in the future if kvm-pr (or
+any other KVM alternative) is usable as KVM accel for this machine.
+
 Boot options
 ------------
 
-- 
2.31.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-30 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30 13:31 [PATCH v2 0/2] ppc/pnv.c: add a friendly warning when accel=kvm is used Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-11-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-11-30 23:43   ` David Gibson
2021-11-30 13:31 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza [this message]
2021-12-15 16:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Cédric Le Goater

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