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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH for-1.6] target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model


From: Alexander Graf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH for-1.6] target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:55:58 +0200

On 05.08.2013, at 22:59, Andreas Färber wrote:

> Commit 03a15a5436ed7723f406f15cc3798aa9991e75b5 claimed to add a POWER7+
> model but instead added a "POWER7P" model, with an unhelpful "POWER7P"
> description on top. Fix this to "POWER7+" as we already have "POWER3+",
> "POWER4+" and "POWER5+" and there being no reason to deviate with the
> user-visible command line -cpu POWER7P from the marketing name POWER7+.
> 
> Further, don't needlessly deviate from the scheme of naming PVR constant,
> QOM type and device description after the exact revision that is in fact
> encoded in the PVR used.
> That way, we can change the user-friendly alias -cpu POWER7+ to point to a
> different revision if we so desire, while not polluting the type namespace.
> 
> This naming scheme is sensible and completely orthogonal to how PVRs may
> or may not get matched to CPU types.
> 
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next and added a CC to qemu-stable so it gets into 1.6.1.


Alex




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