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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/5] ppc: Improve PCR bit selection in ppc_set_com


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/5] ppc: Improve PCR bit selection in ppc_set_compat()
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 08:59:30 +0200
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On 08.06.2016 07:44, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:39:39PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> When using an olderr PowerISA level, all the upper compatibility
>> bits have to be enabled, too. For example when we want to run
>> something in PowerISA 2.05 compatibility mode on POWER8, the bit
>> for 2.06 has to be set beside the bit for 2.05.
>> Additionally, to make sure that we do not set bits that are not
>> supported by the host, we apply a mask with the known-to-be-good
>> bits here, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> 
> So, this breaks compile on 32-bit targets, because the spr values are
> only 32-bit there, and the PCR constants exceed that.  But
> ppc_set_compat() is only actually used on 64-bit machines, so I've
> added a change to #if it out for 64-bit targets.

D'oh, I explicitly compiled everything with a mingw32 cross-compiler to
catch such issues ... but apparently it compiled without -Werror here,
so I did not notice the warning :-(
Thanks for the fixup!

 Thomas


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