Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] spapr: Remove obsolete entry_point field from sPAPRMachineState

[Bharata B Rao]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 01:57:03PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> The sPAPRMachineState structure includes an entry_point field containing
> the initial PC value for starting the machine, even though this always has
> the value 0x100.
> 
> I think this is a hangover from very early versions which bypassed the
> firmware when using -kernel.  In any case it has no function now, so remove
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c         | 4 +---
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 1123358..c4c7a07 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static void ppc_spapr_reset(void)
>      first_ppc_cpu->env.gpr[3] = sm->fdt_addr;
>      first_ppc_cpu->env.gpr[5] = 0;
>      first_cpu->halted = 0;
> -    first_ppc_cpu->env.nip = sm->entry_point;
> +    first_ppc_cpu->env.nip = SPAPR_ENTRY_POINT;
> 
>  }
> 
> @@ -1641,8 +1641,6 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(MachineState *machine)
>      }
>      g_free(filename);
> 
> -    sm->entry_point = 0x100;
> -
>      /* FIXME: Should register thigs through the MachineState's qdev
>       * interface, this is a legacy from the sPAPREnvironment structure
>       * which predated MachineState but had a similar function */
> diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> index 9e7cf0f..108ff45 100644
> --- a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> +++ b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ typedef struct sPAPRConfigureConnectorState 
> sPAPRConfigureConnectorState;
>  typedef struct sPAPREventLogEntry sPAPREventLogEntry;
> 
>  #define HPTE64_V_HPTE_DIRTY     0x0000000000000040ULL
> +#define SPAPR_ENTRY_POINT    0x100

checkpatch.pl complains about the use of tab here.

Other than that I did a quick compile and VM boot test, things look ok.

Regards,
Bharata.