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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU
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Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-ppc <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, qemu-stable@nongnu.org, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>



On 02.03.15 14:42, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
> Am 02.03.2015 um 14:37 schrieb Alexander Graf:
>> On 01.03.15 01:31, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
>>> This reverts commit 5b79b1cadd3e565b6d1a5ba59764bd47af58b271 to avoid
>>> double-registration of types:
>>>
>>>   Registering `POWER5+-powerpc64-cpu' which already exists
>>>
>>> Taking the textual description of a CPU type as part of a new type na=
me
>>> is plain wrong, and so is unconditionally registering a new type here=
.
>>>
>>> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>>> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas F=C3=A4rber <afaerber@suse.de>
>>
>> Doesn't this break p8 support?
>=20
> Maybe, but p5 support was in longer and this is definitely a regression
> and really really wrong. If you know a way to fix it without handing it
> back to the IBM guys for more thought, feel free to give it a shot.

I honestly don't fully remember what this was about. Wasn't this our
special KVM class that we use to create a compatible cpu type on the fly?

Alexey, please take a look at it.


Alex

>=20
> Andreas
>=20