On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:10:28PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 07/08/2015 01:43 PM, David Gibson wrote: > >From: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> > > > >Add a missing PVR value for the POWER8E v2.1 CPU. Information taken > >from the kernel cputable. > > > >Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> > >Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > >--- > > target-ppc/cpu-models.c | 4 +++- > > target-ppc/cpu-models.h | 1 + > > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > >Alex, > > > >Not sure if this counts as a bugfix which can be merged now we're in > >the hard freeze. The lack of it does mean we can't work on one of our > >dev machines which has this CPU. > > > Why is this a stopper? We stopped bothering with exact PVRs some time ago > and -cpu POWER8 or -cpu host still work.
Andrea, can you clarify?
I think it's because libvirt likes to specify a specific CPU - and if
it gets the new PVR from the host, qemu won't understand it.
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