On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:01:40PM +0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 13:15 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > This is a rebased and revised version of my patches revising CPU > > compatiblity mode handling on ppc, last posted in November. Since > > then, many of the patches have already been merged (some for 2.9, some > > since). This is what's left. > > As discussed yesterday on libvir-list, the current > implementation will abort() when the user attempts to use > a compat mode that's not valid for the host CPU, eg. on > a POWER8 host: > > $ qemu-system-ppc64 \ > -nodefaults \ > -M pseries,accel=kvm \ > -cpu host,compat=power9 > Unexpected error in ppc_set_compat() at target/ppc/compat.c:135: > qemu-system-ppc64: Compatibility PVR 0x0f000005 not valid for CPU > Aborted > > We should probably report the error to the user in a slightly > less destructive fashion :)
Good point. As I suspected, this was just an &error_abort somewhere I
should have used an &error_fatal. Fixed in the ppc-for-2.10 I just
pushed.
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