From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] spapr: Enable ibm, client-architecture-support
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:19:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537F2EAF.1050801@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400812018-23430-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>
On 23.05.14 04:26, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> This enables a ibm,client-architecture-support RTAS call.
>
> This allows older distros (such as SLES11 or RHEL6) to work on modern
> POWERPC hardware (such as POWER8) in "architected" mode.
>
> Changelog for v3 is in "spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm,client-architecture-support"
> and that is the only change.
>
> Please comment. Thank you.
Thanks, applied to ppc-next.
One thing I realized while reading through those patches again is that
we don't document any of the -machine or -cpu special options for ppc.
I think we should properly mention those in the man page so that people
have a chance to know about them :).
Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-23 2:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] spapr: Enable ibm, client-architecture-support Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/9] target-ppc: Add "compat" CPU option Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/9] spapr: Move SMT-related properties out of skeleton fdt Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/9] target-ppc: Implement "compat" CPU option Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/9] target-ppc: Define Processor Compatibility Masks Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/9] spapr: Add ibm, client-architecture-support call Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/9] spapr: Rework spapr_fixup_cpu_dt() Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/9] spapr: Limit threads per core according to current compatibility mode Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 9/9] KVM: PPC: Enable compatibility mode Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-23 12:34 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-23 11:19 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
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