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From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] powerpc: add PVR mask support
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmU=?= =?UTF-8?B?YXMgRsOkcmJlcg==?= <afaerber@suse.de>

On 09/30/2013 09:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 27.09.2013, at 10:05, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
>> IBM POWERPC processors encode PVR as a CPU family in higher 16 bits and
>> a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant change
>> in behavior between versions, there is no point to add every single CPU
>> version in QEMU's CPU list. Also, new CPU versions of already supported
>> CPU won't break the existing code.
>>
>> This adds PVR value/mask support for KVM, i.e. for -cpu host option.
>>
>> As CPU family class name for POWER7 is "POWER7-family", there is no need
>> to touch aliases.
>>
>> Cc: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> 
> Looks reasonable to me, but I'll wait for an ack from Andreas.


Ping, anyone?


-- 
Alexey