[RFC PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3E: AltiVec support

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Jun 7 05:57:54 EST 2013


On 06/06/2013 04:42:44 AM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > > > This looks like a bit much for 3.10 (certainly, subject lines  
> like
> > > > "refactor" and "enhance" and "add support" aren't going to make
> > > Linus
> > > > happy given that we're past rc4) so I think we should apply
> > > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/242896/ for 3.10.  Then for  
> 3.11,
> > > > revert it after applying this patchset.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Why not 1/6 plus e6500 removal?
> >
> > 1/6 is not a bugfix.
> 
> Not sure I get it. Isn't this a better fix for AltiVec build breakage:
> 
> -#define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL 42
> -#define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST 43
> +#define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL 32
> +#define BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST 33
> 
> This removes the need for additional kvm_handlers. Obvious this  
> doesn't make
> AltiVec to work so we still need to disable e6500.

OK, didn't realize you meant it as an alternative fix to what was in my  
patch.

-Scott


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