Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-06 Thread Blue Swirl
On 12/5/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/4/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be surprised if an SMP kernel actually worked on a multi CPU SS5. Prepare for a surprise: That's interesting because the fact that it works shows how

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On 12/4/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/3/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On 12/4/07, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/3/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.12.2007 um 00:53 schrieb Thiemo Seufer: Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/3/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5 with 16 CPUs

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Paul Brook
If you want to make a 16 CPU, 64 Gb machine, define a QEMU specific machine. There are no real 32 bit sparc systems like that. I believe the Cray CS6400 was a 64-way sparc32 machine with 16Gb ram. Admittedly it's a sun4d variant, not sun4m. I've no idea how much difference (if any) that

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On 12/4/07, Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to make a 16 CPU, 64 Gb machine, define a QEMU specific machine. There are no real 32 bit sparc systems like that. I believe the Cray CS6400 was a 64-way sparc32 machine with 16Gb ram. Admittedly it's a sun4d variant, not sun4m.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Reif
Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/4/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be surprised if an SMP kernel actually worked on a multi CPU SS5. Prepare for a surprise: That's interesting because the fact that it works shows how inaccurate the emulation is. Now could you please

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-03 Thread Blue Swirl
On 12/3/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5 with 16 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of memory, it doesn't break anything to have this

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-03 Thread Robert Reif
Blue Swirl wrote: On 12/3/07, Robert Reif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5 with 16 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of memory, it doesn't

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Reif
This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is supported by the actual hardware. Index: hw/sun4m.c === RCS file: /sources/qemu/qemu/hw/sun4m.c,v retrieving revision 1.66 diff -p -u -r1.66 sun4m.c --- hw/sun4m.c 2