Subject: Re: Looking for architecture papers

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:29:24 -0500

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 07:44:12PM +0300, Raz wrote:
> Both systemsim and my powerpc server boots with MSR_HV=1, i.e, hypervisor state.
> Is there away to fix that ? writing to the MSR cannot work according
> the documentation ( and reality ).

But that is what you do: you write HV=0 in MSR.  After doing other setup,
of course.

On some hardware you cannot set HV=0.  You cannot do logical partitioning
on such hardware.  PowerMac G5 comes to mind.

Segher