[libvirt] [PATCH V2 1/2] cpu: Handle only high order 16 bits of PVR for IBM Power processors

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:00:53PM +0530, Pradipta Kr. Banerjee wrote:
> cpu: Handle only high order 16 bits of PVR for IBM Power processors
> 
> IBM Power processors encode PVR as CPU family in higher
> 16 bits and a CPU version in lower 16 bits. Since there is no significant
> change in behavior between versions, there is no point to add every single
> CPU version in cpu_map.xml
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pradipta Kr. Banerjee <bpradip at in.ibm.com>
> ---
>  src/cpu/cpu_map.xml   | 22 ++++++++--------------
>  src/cpu/cpu_powerpc.c |  7 ++++++-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml b/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
> index 18c7b0d..f2f13fb 100644
> --- a/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
> +++ b/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
> @@ -602,30 +602,24 @@
>      <vendor name='IBM'/>
>  
>      <!-- IBM-based CPU models -->
> -    <model name='POWER7'>
> +    <model name='power6'>
>        <vendor name='IBM'/>
> -      <pvr value='0x003f0200'/>
> +      <pvr value='0x003e0000'/>
>      </model>
>  
> -    <model name='POWER7_v2.1'>
> +    <model name='power7'>
>        <vendor name='IBM'/>
> -      <pvr value='0x003f0201'/>
> +      <pvr value='0x003f0000'/>
>      </model>
>  
> -    <model name='POWER7_v2.3'>
> +    <model name='power7+'>
>        <vendor name='IBM'/>
> -      <pvr value='0x003f0203'/>
> +      <pvr value='0x004a0000'/>
>      </model>
>  
> -    <model name='POWER7+_v2.1'>
> +    <model name='power8'>
>        <vendor name='IBM'/>
> -      <pvr value='0x004a0201'/>
> +      <pvr value='0x004b0000'/>
>      </model>
> -
> -    <model name='POWER8_v1.0'>
> -      <vendor name='IBM'/>
> -      <pvr value='0x004b0100'/>
> -    </model>

Changing names of all the CPU models in this way is going to break every
existing XML config on PPC. So NACK to that.

Regards,
Daniel
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