Re: powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm, client-architecture-support call

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On Tue, 2016-31-05 at 05:51:17 UTC, Thomas Huth wrote:
> If we do not provide the PVR for POWER8NVL, a guest on this
> system currently ends up in PowerISA 2.06 compatibility mode on
> KVM, since QEMU does not provide a generic PowerISA 2.07 mode yet.
> So some new instructions from POWER8 (like "mtvsrd") get disabled
> for the guest, resulting in crashes when using code compiled
> explicitly for POWER8 (e.g. with the "-mcpu=power8" option of GCC).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7cc851039d643a2ee7df4d1817

cheers
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