Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:27:17AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > We never released anything older than POWER8 DD2.0 and POWER8E DD2.1, > so let's use these versions, without that some firmware or Linux code > might fail to use some HW features that were non functional in earlier >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 16:01 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:27:17AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > We never released anything older than POWER8 DD2.0 and POWER8E DD2.1, > > so let's use these versions, without that some firmware or Linux code > > might fail to use

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 11:11 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > I have never heard of anyone testing migration of TCG guests. KVM guests > use host PVR anyway. > > I just wonder that we "never released anything older than" but we still > support them in the kernel - why do not we wipe these

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

On 11/16/2015 09:17 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 16:01 +1100, David Gibson wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:27:17AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: We never released anything older than POWER8 DD2.0 and POWER8E DD2.1, so let's use these versions, without that

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > We never released anything older than POWER8 DD2.0 and POWER8E DD2.1, > so let's use these versions, without that some firmware or Linux code > might fail to use some HW features that were non functional in earlier > internal only spins