On 07.09.15 07:04, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I'm wondering if the existing behavior is good: >> >> what I have understood is we define ppc32 guests in ppc64 target to be >> able to run 32bit guest with 64bit qemu, but I don't think it means an >> oldworld mac is able to run a ppc64 kernel. >> >> So I think we could use directly EM_PPC with e500, ppc440, virtex_ml507, > > Definitely right for virtex_ml507. > >> prep and oldworld, and EM_PPC64 with pseries/spapr. Newworld mac should >> be able to run EM_PPC and EM_PPC64 kernel (G3/G4 <-> G5), according to >> the machine type and not to the target. >> > > Sounds good, can the PPC maintainers give a nod to this idea? > Otherwise I'd like to run with the patch as is, as the patch as-is is > non-functional which is the intent of the overall series.
I think the idea is sound, but I'd prefer to see it as a follow-up patch converting each machine individually. That way bisecting things will be easier and if we have to revert anything, we only revert the functional change. Alex
