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    spapr: Implement processor compatibility in ibm, client-architecture-support · 3794d548
    Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
    
    
    Modern Linux kernels support last POWERPC CPUs so when a kernel boots,
    in most cases it can find a matching cpu_spec in the kernel's cpu_specs
    list. However if the kernel is quite old, it may be missing a definition
    of the actual CPU. To provide an ability for old kernels to work on modern
    hardware, a Processor Compatibility Mode has been introduced
    by the PowerISA specification.
    
    >From the hardware prospective, it is supported by the Processor
    Compatibility Register (PCR) which is defined in PowerISA. The register
    enables one of the compatibility modes (2.05/2.06/2.07).
    Since PCR is a hypervisor privileged register and cannot be
    directly accessed from the guest, the mode selection is done via
    ibm,client-architecture-support (CAS) RTAS call using which the guest
    specifies what "raw" and "architected" CPU versions it supports.
    QEMU works out the best match, changes a "cpu-version" property of
    every CPU and notifies the guest about the change by setting these
    properties in the buffer passed as a response on a custom H_CAS hypercall.
    
    This implements ibm,client-architecture-support parameters parsing
    (now only for PVRs) and cooks the device tree diff with new values for
    "cpu-version", "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" and
    "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" properties.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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