Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 000/107] ppc-for-2.9 queue 20170202

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 February 2017 at 05:12, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following changes since commit a0def594286d9110a6035e02eef558cf3cf5d847:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into 
> staging (2017-01-30 10:23:20 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-2.9-20170202
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 7c6e8797337c24520b48d8b50a900a747e50f974:
>
>   hw/ppc/pnv: Use error_report instead of hw_error if a ROM file can't be 
> found (2017-02-02 09:30:07 +1100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ppc patch queue 2017-02-02
>
> This obsoletes ppc-for-2.9-20170112, which had a MacOS build bug.
>
> This is a long overdue ppc pull request for qemu-2.9.  It's been a
> long time coming due to some holidays and inconveniently timed
> problems with testing.  So, there's a lot in here:
>
>     * More POWER9 instruction implementations for TCG
>     * The simpler parts of my CPU compatibility mode cleanup
>         * This changes behaviour to prefer compatibility modes over
>           "raW" mode for new machine type versions
>     * New "40p" machine type which is essentially a modernized and
>       cleaned up "prep".  The intention is that it will replace "prep"
>       once it has some more testing and polish.
>     * Add pseries-2.9 machine type
>     * Implement H_SIGNAL_SYS_RESET hypercall
>     * Consolidate the two alternate CPU init paths in pseries by
>       making it always go through CPU core objects to initialize CPU
>     * A number of bugfixes and cleanups
>     * Stop the guest timebase when the guest is stopped under KVM.
>       This makes the guest system clock also stop when paused, which
>       matches the x86 behaviour.
>     * Some preliminary cleanups leading towards implementation of the
>       POWER9 MMU.
>
> There are also some changes not strictly related to ppc code, but for
> its benefit:
>
>     * Limit the pxi-expander-bridge (PXB) device to x86 guests only
>       (it's essentially a hack to work around historical x86
>       limitations)
>     * Some additions to the 128-bit math in host_utils, necessary for
>       some of the new instructions.
>     * Revise a number of qtests and enable them for ppc

Applied, thanks.

-- PMM