Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH Risu 0/7] Risu PPC improvements

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 February 2017 at 02:17, Jose Ricardo Ziviani
<address@hidden> wrote:
> This patchset contains some fixes and improvements for ppc64le.
>
> Jose Ricardo Ziviani (7):
>   risu_ppc64le: improve xsrqpi[x] and xsrqpxp instructions
>   risu_ppc64le: fix 32-bit mov immediate
>   risu_ppc64le: implement sign extend for small neg constants
>   risu_ppc64le: implement FP random data for test improvement
>   risu_ppc64le: stop loading data to register 1 and 13
>   risu_ppc64le: remove fancy shell character cont from messages
>   risu_ppc64le: fix minor code style in assembly test code
>
>  ppc64.risu             |  9 ++++++---
>  risu_reginfo_ppc64le.c |  6 +++---
>  risugen_ppc64.pm       | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  test_ppc64le.s         | 20 +++++++++-----------
>  4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Applied to risu master, thanks.

Regarding the FP random data, we should split out the
write_random_fpreg_var() from the ARM risugen code so
it can be used by any architecture. That produces a
more useful distribution of FP values for testing than a
simple evenly distributed random number does.

thanks
-- PMM