Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] target/ppc: allow ppc_cpu_do_system_reset to take an alternate vector

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:28:24AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Cédric Le Goater's on March 17, 2020 4:15 am:
> > On 3/16/20 3:26 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> Provide for an alternate delivery location, -1 defaults to the
> >> architected address.
> > 
> > I don't know what is the best approach, to override the vector addr
> > computed by powerpc_excp() or use a machine class handler with 
> > cpu->vhyp.
> 
> Yeah it's getting a bit ad hoc and inconsistent with machine check
> etc, I just figured get something minimal in there now. The whole
> exception delivery needs a spring clean though.

Yeah, there's a huge amount of cruft in nearly all the softmmu code.
It's such a big task that I don't really have any plans to tackle it
specifically.  Instead I've been cleaning up little pieces as they
impinge on things I actually care about.

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