Subject: Re: Freescale P5020 cpu will be kvm-pr?

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:10:05 -0600

On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 20:03 +0100, luigi burdo wrote:
> Hi all,
> sorry for this email but i need to ask to  Alexander Graf and Michael
> Ellerman if will be possible have kvm and kvm-pr for the Freescale/Nix P5020
> cpu . 

KVM for e5500 uses hardware hypervisor features.  PR-mode KVM is not
supported.  Nested KVM is not supported.

> We are testing a new desktop machine with this powerpc cpu classes
> and right now we see kvm under qemu is working only on emb side, this
> because the kernel
> set the e5500 cpu as a emb and there is no an option for build the kernel
> with book3s.

p5020 uses an e5500 core which is book3e.  You cannot use a book3s kernel with
it.  Why would you want to?

I don't know what you mean by "working only on emb side".

-Scott