[Qemu-devel] Re: [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v4)

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.03.2011, at 22:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:38 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 23.03.2011, at 06:30, David Gibson wrote:
>> 
>>> This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to
>>> emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions.  More specifically it
>>> implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform
>>> Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short).
>>> 
>>> Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than
>>> are currently supported.  It also makes some significant cleanups to
>>> the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs.
>> 
>> Even with libfdt installed it doesn't compile on my x86_64 box w/ ppc-softmmu
>> and ppc64-softmmu targets. Maybe you should simply not build the pseries 
>> target
>> on 32bit? It won't work there anyways, right?
> 
> It should work. I've used my laptop with a 32-bit qemu iirc for a while
> when working on SLOF... at least I -think- I did :-)

32-bit host or guest? I'm talking about --target-list=ppc-softmmu


Alex