Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 00/64] ppc-for-2.8 queue 20160907

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 September 2016 at 11:28, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following changes since commit 2926375cffce464fde6b4dabaed1e133d549af39:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging 
> (2016-09-06 17:18:17 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-2.8-20160907
>
> for you to fetch changes up to d2ab58ffc927c00e88f53f9b853b015a76fa1bd2:
>
>   tests: Check serial output of firmware boot of some machines (2016-09-07 
> 12:40:13 +1000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ppc patch queue for 2016-Sep-7
>
> This is my first pull request for the newly opened qemu-2.8 tree.  It
> contains a heap of things that were too late for 2.7 and have been
> queued for a while.  In particular:
>     * A number of preliminary patches for the powernv machine type
>         * A substantial cleanup of exception handling which will be
>           necessary to support running a TCG with hypervisor
>           facilities
>     * A start on support for POWER9
>         * Some TCG implementations for new POWER9 instructions
>         * Some TCG and related cleanups in preparation for POWER9
>     * Some assorted TCG optimizations
>     * An implementation of the H_CHANGE_LOGICAL_LAN_MAC hypercall
>       which allows the MAC address to be changed on the PAPR virtual
>       NIC.
>     * Add some extra test cases for several machines (this isn't
>       strictly in the ppc code, but is most value to ppc)
>
> NOTE: This pull request supersedes ppc-for-2.8-20160906, which had
> some problems.  Changes:
>   * Dropped BenH's lmw/stmw speedups, which break for
>     qemu-system-ppc64 on BE hosts
>   * A small fix to Thomas' serial output test to avoid a warning on
>     the isapc machine type.
>   * Some trivial checkpatch fixes
>
> Note that some of the patches in this series still have large numbers
> of checkpatch warnings.  This is because they're moving existing code
> that predates most of the checkpatch style conventions.
>

Applied, thanks.

-- PMM