From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT8PJ-0007U0-Pa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:28:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT8PF-0004XG-1R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:28:09 -0500 Message-ID: <54F6FA53.5080106@suse.de> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:28:03 +0100 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1425432686-29851-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> In-Reply-To: <1425432686-29851-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add versions to server CPU descriptions List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexey Kardashevskiy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, =?windows-1252?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= On 04.03.15 02:31, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > 5b79b1c "target-ppc: Create versionless CPU class per family if KVM" added > a dynamic CPU class registration with the name of the CPU family which > QEMU is running on. For example, this allowed specifying "-cpu POWER7" > on every version of POWER7 machine, not just the one which POWER7 was > an alias of. I.e. before 5b79b1c, "-cpu POWER7" would not work on real > POWER7 2.1 and would work on POWER7 2.3 only. The same story for POWER8. > > However that patch broke POWER5+ support as POWER5+ CPU uses the same > name as the CPU class so dynamic registering of the POWER5+ class failed. > > This redefines POWER5+ server CPUs by adding a version to them and adding > an alias for TCG case. KVM will use dynamically registered CPUs. > > While we are here, do the same for 970 CPU. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy Thanks, applied to ppc-next. Alex