On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:42 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 17.05.2013 06:25, schrieb David Gibson:
> > Currently, for qemu-system-ppc64, the default machine type is 'mac99'.
> > Since the mac99 machine is not being actively maintained, and shows quite
> > a few signs of bitrot,
>
> Please be more specific than making such general claims in a commit
> message! As the default machine it certainly compiles, so where are you
> seeing bitrot? The DEC bridge cleanup that I once started kind of
> depends on the PCI cleanup you recently looked into.
It certainly doesn't actually work properly and it emulates something
that doesn't exist (ie. a G5 with Cuda for god sake :-)
pseries is much more useful and well maintained.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Andreas
>
> > this is not very sensible. This patch changes the
> > default machine to 'pseries', which is actively maintained and works well
> > with most modern ppc64 Linux distributions as a guest.
> >
> > Because the pseries machine type is optional (it is only built when libfdt
> > is available), this can result in a build with no default machine. In that
> > case vl.c will print a "No machine found" message. This seems reasonable,
> > given that as mentioned, mac99 is unlikely to be a good choice.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > ---
> > hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c | 3 ---
> > hw/ppc/spapr.c | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c b/hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c
> > index ce44e95..dafe7d2 100644
> > --- a/hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c
> > @@ -458,9 +458,6 @@ static QEMUMachine core99_machine = {
> > .desc = "Mac99 based PowerMAC",
> > .init = ppc_core99_init,
> > .max_cpus = MAX_CPUS,
> > -#ifdef TARGET_PPC64
> > - .is_default = 1,
> > -#endif
> > DEFAULT_MACHINE_OPTIONS,
> > };
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > index 74a9306..ced1b63 100644
> > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > @@ -1348,6 +1348,7 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(QEMUMachineInitArgs *args)
> > static QEMUMachine spapr_machine = {
> > .name = "pseries",
> > .desc = "pSeries Logical Partition (PAPR compliant)",
> > + .is_default = 1,
> > .init = ppc_spapr_init,
> > .reset = ppc_spapr_reset,
> > .block_default_type = IF_SCSI,
> >
>
>
