Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 03/20] ppc/pnv: add a core mask to PnvChip

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:01:52PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:32 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:24:39AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > > This will be used to build real HW ids for the cores and enforce
> > some
> > > limits on the available cores per chip.
> > 
> > Is there actually a practical reason to allow the user (or machine
> > type) to override the default core mask?
> 
> None other than mimmicing real HW ... some cores can be disabled
> on some chips and we *might* want to mimmic that for some test
> scenarios.

Ok, sounds like a good enough reason to me.

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