Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU class per family if KVM"

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 03/03/2015 12:51 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>
> On 02.03.15 14:42, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 02.03.2015 um 14:37 schrieb Alexander Graf:
>>> On 01.03.15 01:31, Andreas Färber 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 name
>>>> 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 Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>>>
>>> Doesn't this break p8 support?
>>
>> 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.


I sent a note yesterday :-/ Here it is again:

With this revert, running qemu with HV KVM and -cpu POWER7 fails on real 
POWER7 machine as my machine has pvr 003f 0201 and POWER7 is an alias of 
POWER7_v2.3 (pvr 003f 0203); and this is what I tried to fix at the first 
place. QEMU looks at classes first, and if not found - at aliases, so this 
worked.

I would rename "POWER5+" to "POWER5+_0.0" and make "POWER5+" an alias for 
POWER5+_v2.1 (or POWER5+_0.0).



-- 
Alexey