[PATCH 0/15] Hypervisor-mode KVM on POWER7 and PPC970

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov dbaryshkov at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 18:17:39 EST 2011


On 6/22/11, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:18:39PM +0000, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>
>> I have a Maple board (dual PPC970FX). Will this patchset work on it?
>> Should I add any additional changes to add support for this platform?
>
> Provided the firmware gives you control in hypervisor mode, yes it
> should work, and I don't know of any extra changes you would need.
> I don't recall what firmware the Maple boards had on them, though.

On my board I have a PIBS firmware which programs all PPC970 registers
with special script. I think one of the scripts bears "hypervisor" settings,
so I'll try to give this patchset a try.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry


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