Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Add POWER8E_v2.1 CPU model.

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:10:28PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 07/08/2015 01:43 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> >From: Andrea Bolognani <address@hidden>
> >
> >Add a missing PVR value for the POWER8E v2.1 CPU.  Information taken
> >from the kernel cputable.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <address@hidden>
> >Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> >---
> >  target-ppc/cpu-models.c | 4 +++-
> >  target-ppc/cpu-models.h | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >Alex,
> >
> >Not sure if this counts as a bugfix which can be merged now we're in
> >the hard freeze.  The lack of it does mean we can't work on one of our
> >dev machines which has this CPU.
> 
> 
> Why is this a stopper? We stopped bothering with exact PVRs some time ago
> and -cpu POWER8 or -cpu host still work.

Andrea, can you clarify?

I think it's because libvirt likes to specify a specific CPU - and if
it gets the new PVR from the host, qemu won't understand it.

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