[17.10 FEAT] qemu: P8-Compat mode for P8 Guests on P9 platform

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== Comment: #0 - Frank P. Novak <email address hidden> - 2016-08-12 14:48:07 ==

[Feature] qemu: P8-Compat mode for P8 Guests on P9 platform

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
thanks for starting the tracking of all related changes.
Is this in qemu 2.9, if not is it at least upstream and which are the related commits?

I seem to copy this message a lot now, since you started tracking all features.
No offense - I just need to make clear on the bug that - until we know what the details are - we can't work on it yet. I asked several times on other channels, so really thanks to start the tracking.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-05-23 12:29 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #4)
> Hi,
> thanks for starting the tracking of all related changes.
> Is this in qemu 2.9, if not is it at least upstream and which are the
> related commits?

This is QEMU 2.10. The basic POWER9 support is coming with QEMU 2.10.

> I seem to copy this message a lot now, since you started tracking all
> features.
> No offense - I just need to make clear on the bug that - until we know what
> the details are - we can't work on it yet. I asked several times on other
> channels, so really thanks to start the tracking.

No problem! :)

This feature is to make sure we have the needed generic support in QEMU to run POWER8-compat mode guests. It can be successfully tested by being able to run a Ubuntu verion targeted for POWER8, such as Ubuntu 16.10, as a guest on a POWER9 machine.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Ping - Since 2.10 likely will be too late to make 17.10 polling for related commit ID's for p9 support

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

I know we worked much closer together and things should be good for all I've heard, but thereby forgot to update all these bugs. Also the usual automatic bug close didn't post here on the uploads.
So we need to update all those - it was a lot of effort to get all that in time, but the final qemu 2.10 is now pushed to Artful and given former comments this should be fix-released.

Please verify your cases if anything might be left.
There were a few that I know got punted to qemu 2.11 - I left those open for now.
If one of the cases I close are actually one of these please reopen and clarify what will be needed.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-02-14 13:53 EDT-------
This should be working on Ubuntu 18.04. Closing.