Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 17.05.14 03:45, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/17/2014 06:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 16.05.14 17:57, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/17/2014 12:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a ke

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-18 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 05/17/2014 11:45 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 05/17/2014 06:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 16.05.14 17:57, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> On 05/17/2014 12:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > Modern Linux kernels support last POWE

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 05/17/2014 06:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 16.05.14 17:57, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> On 05/17/2014 12:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots, in most cases it can

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Graf
On 16.05.14 17:57, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/17/2014 12:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots, in most cases it can find a matching cpu_spec in the kernel's cpu_specs list. Howev

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-16 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 05/17/2014 12:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots, >> in most cases it can find a matching cpu_spec in the kernel's cpu_specs >> list. However if the kernel is quite old, it may

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Graf
On 15.05.14 13:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots, in most cases it can find a matching cpu_spec in the kernel's cpu_specs list. However if the kernel is quite old, it may be missing a definition of the actual CPU. To provide an

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support

2014-05-15 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots, in most cases it can find a matching cpu_spec in the kernel's cpu_specs list. However if the kernel is quite old, it may be missing a definition of the actual CPU. To provide an ability for old kernels to work on modern hardware