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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] powerpc iommu: enable multiple TCE requests
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Il 20/08/2013 11:20, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 11:15 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>> - provide the infrastructure to enable/disable it from the command
>> line
>> (which will be enough design effort alone);
> 
> <sight> ... why do things simply when we can come up with a cathedral
> instead ?

Uhm... I thought Alex and I were the one who proposed the simple things.
 You _will_ need to do the complicated stuff sooner or later, but it's
probably early enough now to ignore it.

And I'm not saying this out of love for big cathedrals, but out of
lessons we learned the hard way for x86 (where we haven't gotten
everything right yet, either).

Paolo

>> - add pseries-1.6 as a synonym of pseries in 1.6.1;
>>
>> - add pseries-1.7 a synonym of pseries in master;
>>
>> - add a pseries-1.6 machine type in master that always disables it.
> 
> 
>