[PATCH v2 2/3] powerpc/e500: add paravirt QEMU platform

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 11 22:57:52 EST 2012


On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> This gives the kernel a paravirtualized machine to target, without
> requiring both sides to pretend to be targeting a specific board
> that likely has little to do with the host in KVM scenarios.  This
> avoids the need to add new boards to QEMU just to be able to
> run KVM on new CPUs.
> 
> As this is the first platform that can run with either e500v2 or
> e500mc, CONFIG_PPC_E500MC is now a legitimately user configurable
> option, so add a help text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> ---
> v2: Added a comment about the flexible nature of this platform, and
> rebased on Kumar's next
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig     |   16 +++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Makefile    |    1 +
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/qemu_e500.c |   72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype  |    4 ++
> 4 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/qemu_e500.c

applied to next

- k


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