On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, aziz tlili wrote:
Dear QEMU Team,
I hope this message finds you well. I've been a user of QEMU for well over
a year.
I wanted to share an idea for a potential enhancement that I believe could
benefit many users, including myself. It would be fantastic to have a new
PPC machine model similar to the existing mac99, but with support for
multiple SMP cores for both qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-ppc64.
There are several machines in qemu-system-ppc64 that support SMP such as
pseries and powernv I think. For qemu-system-ppc maybe only ppce500. The mac99
may create multiple CPUs (G4 when ron with qemu-system-ppc or G5 with
qemu-system-ppc64) but not sure if there's an OS that can actually use that.
Linux support for mac99 may not be the best.
The ability to simulate multiple SMP cores within a PPC machine environment
would significantly enhance the capabilities of QEMU for various
applications, testing scenarios, and development purposes. This addition
could greatly benefit the community working on PowerPC architecture.
Sure. Contributions are welcome.
I understand the complexities involved in such developments but wanted to
express the potential advantages and how this enhancement could contribute
to expanding QEMU's capabilities.
Problem is not in understanding the potential advantages but the lack of people
interested in working on that so progress depends on somebody doing it and
sending patches.
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
Thank you for considering my suggestion. I would be more than happy to
provide further details or collaborate in any way that could assist in
making this idea a reality.
Best regards,
Aziz Tlili