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
next prev 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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