On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 01:06 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> power9 compatibility mode, which AFAICT is simply not
> defined at all in QEMU.
Umm.. what? It's right there in target/ppc/compat.c. Or are you
looking at downstream - maybe it hasn't been backported yet.
[...]
> One more issue I've noticed:
>
> $ /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm \
> -nodefaults \
> -M pseries,accel=kvm \
> -cpu POWER9
> qemu-kvm: Unable to find sPAPR CPU Core definition
>
> Since the recommended configuration for POWER8 guests is
> to use
>
> <cpu mode='custom'>
> <model>POWER8</model>
> </cpu>
>
> I would expect the above command line to work so that
> POWER9 guests can be configured in a similar manner. That
> seems bug-worthy to me, should I go ahead and file it?
Uh, yeah. Again, I'm pretty sure that's already working upstream.
Yeah, I've been looking at downstream. I'll try again with
upstream and file bugs as needed.
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