Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 00/73] ppc-for-2.8 queue 20161028

[Peter Maydell]

On 28 October 2016 at 02:37, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following changes since commit 835f3d24b42fcbeca5c49048994a4e5d0fe905c5:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kraxel/tags/pull-audio-20161027-1' 
> into staging (2016-10-27 17:24:29 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-2.8-20161028
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 10c21b5c20bf3d20b7b0ad279db37ae89cc7937d:
>
>   ppc: allow certain HV interrupts to be delivered to guests (2016-10-28 
> 11:17:35 +1100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ppc patch queue 2016-10-28
>
> This pull request supersedes and extends the one from 2016-10-26
> (which had a build bug).
>
> Highlights:
>   * SLOF (pseries guest firmware) update
>   * Enable a number of extra testcases on ppc / pseries
>   * Added the 'powernv' machine type
>     - Almost enough to be minimally usable
>     - But still missing necessary interrupt controller updates
>   * Cleanup and consolidation of NVRAM handling on several platforms
>     with related firmware
>   * Substantial cleanup to device tree construction
>   * Some more POWER9 instruction emulation
>   * Cleanup to handling of pseries option vectors and CAS reboot
>     handling (host/guest feature negotiation mechanism)
>   * Significant cleanups to handling of PCI devices in test cases
>   * New hotplug event infrastructure
>   * Memory hot unplug support for pseries
>   * Several bug fixes
>
> The NVRAM cleanup affects some Sun sparc platforms as well as ppc
> ones, but have been tested by the sparc maintainer (Mark Cave-Ayland).
>
> The test additions also include substantial general changes to the
> test framework that aren't strictly ppc related.  They don't seem to
> break tests on other platforms, they're for the benefit of enabling
> tests on ppc and there isn't a specific maintainer for them, so
> they're included in this tree.
>

Applied, thanks.

-- PMM