Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 04/77] target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 16:01 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:27:17AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > We never released anything older than POWER8 DD2.0 and POWER8E DD2.1,
> > so let's use these versions, without that some firmware or Linux code
> > might fail to use some HW features that were non functional in earlier
> > internal only spins of the chip.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden>
> 
> Hmm, I'm just wondering if replacing the old CPU models could have
> implications for migration from old images.

I don't know, I'm not that familiar with migration. Alexey, what do you
reckon ? I'd think KVM images use the real PVR so should be a non-
issue, does anybody actually cares about migration of old TCG images ?

> > ---
> >  target-ppc/cpu-models.c | 12 ++++++------
> >  target-ppc/cpu-models.h |  4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/target-ppc/cpu-models.c b/target-ppc/cpu-models.c
> > index 4d5ab4b..349783e 100644
> > --- a/target-ppc/cpu-models.c
> > +++ b/target-ppc/cpu-models.c
> > @@ -1138,10 +1138,10 @@
> >                  "POWER7 v2.3")
> >      POWERPC_DEF("POWER7+_v2.1",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER7P_v21,            
> > POWER7,
> >                  "POWER7+ v2.1")
> > -    POWERPC_DEF("POWER8E_v1.0",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v10,            
> > POWER8,
> > -                "POWER8E v1.0")
> > -    POWERPC_DEF("POWER8_v1.0",   CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_v10,             
> > POWER8,
> > -                "POWER8 v1.0")
> > +    POWERPC_DEF("POWER8E_v2.1",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v21,            
> > POWER8,
> > +                "POWER8E v2.1")
> > +    POWERPC_DEF("POWER8_v2.0",   CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_v20,             
> > POWER8,
> > +                "POWER8 v2.0")
> >      POWERPC_DEF("970_v2.2",      CPU_POWERPC_970_v22,                970,
> >                  "PowerPC 970 v2.2")
> >      POWERPC_DEF("970fx_v1.0",    CPU_POWERPC_970FX_v10,              970,
> > @@ -1389,8 +1389,8 @@ PowerPCCPUAlias ppc_cpu_aliases[] = {
> >      { "POWER5gs", "POWER5+_v2.1" },
> >      { "POWER7", "POWER7_v2.3" },
> >      { "POWER7+", "POWER7+_v2.1" },
> > -    { "POWER8E", "POWER8E_v1.0" },
> > -    { "POWER8", "POWER8_v1.0" },
> > +    { "POWER8E", "POWER8E_v2.1" },
> > +    { "POWER8", "POWER8_v2.0" },
> >      { "970", "970_v2.2" },
> >      { "970fx", "970fx_v3.1" },
> >      { "970mp", "970mp_v1.1" },
> > diff --git a/target-ppc/cpu-models.h b/target-ppc/cpu-models.h
> > index 9d80e72..2992427 100644
> > --- a/target-ppc/cpu-models.h
> > +++ b/target-ppc/cpu-models.h
> > @@ -557,9 +557,9 @@ enum {
> >      CPU_POWERPC_POWER7P_BASE       = 0x004A0000,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_POWER7P_v21        = 0x004A0201,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_BASE       = 0x004B0000,
> > -    CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v10        = 0x004B0100,
> > +    CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v21        = 0x004B0201,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_BASE        = 0x004D0000,
> > -    CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_v10         = 0x004D0100,
> > +    CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_v20         = 0x004D0200,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_970_v22            = 0x00390202,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_970FX_v10          = 0x00391100,
> >      CPU_POWERPC_970FX_v20          = 0x003C0200,
>