On 07.07.2009, at 17:44, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even
more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as
well.
Very nice to see how far you have come with this!
This patchset implements KVM support for PPC64 hosts and guest
support
for PPC64 and G3/G4.
Most of the code is after 970 but does look generic enough to be
usable
on other powerpc64 implementations. How specific to 970 is it really?
Maybe the files and identifiers could be renamed to ppc64?
I'm completely open to naming suggenstions. The code is 100% ppc64
compatible. I'm not aware of any 970 specifics. I just thought all
PPC64 cores are called something with 970.
You mentioned before that you could not get ppc32 guests to run on
Cell hosts, but how about 970 or cell guests? Are there any problems
that mean it cannot work on Power5/6/7 hosts, or was that just a
matter of your priorities and available test hardware?
I got ppc32 guests running on Cell hosts now. Doing Cell guests could
get tricky because of the SPEs but should be fine otherwise as well.
Apart from that I simply wanted to get the CPUs running in the guest
that work with qemu as well :-).
Alex
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