On 05.10.2016 02:07, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 02:55:44PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> A couple of distributors are compiling their distributions
>> with "-mcpu=power8" for ppc64le these days, so the user sooner
>> or later runs into a crash there when not explicitely specifying
>> the "-cpu POWER8" option to QEMU. Due to this reason, the linux-user
>> target already switched to POWER8 by default a while ago (see commit
>> de3f1b98410e0d5b406a0df3a48547b559d18602). Since the softmmu target
>> of course has the same problem, we should switch there to POWER8
>> by default for the newer machine types, too.
>>
>> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357808
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> 
> Sounds good, one detail..
> 
>> ---
>>  Note: This patch should be applied on top of David's ppc-for-2.8
>>  tree, since the pseries-2.8 machine has just been added there
>>  recently.
>>
>>  hw/ppc/spapr.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
>>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h |  1 +
>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> index 63b6a0d..799bcff 100644
>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>> @@ -1775,7 +1775,13 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(MachineState *machine)
>>  
>>      /* init CPUs */
>>      if (machine->cpu_model == NULL) {
>> -        machine->cpu_model = kvm_enabled() ? "host" : "POWER7";
>> +        if (kvm_enabled()) {
>> +            machine->cpu_model = "host";
>> +        } else if (smc->tcg_default_cpu) {
>> +            machine->cpu_model = smc->tcg_default_cpu;
>> +        } else {
>> +            machine->cpu_model = "POWER8";
>> +        }
> 
> You can avoid the last if branch if you initialize tcg_default_cpu to
> POWER8 in spapr_machine_class_init().

You're right, that sounds better. I'll send a v2 ...

 Thomas