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.
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.8-20161028' into staging
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.
# gpg: Signature made Fri 28 Oct 2016 02:37:19 BST
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# gpg: Good signature from "David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>"
# gpg: aka "David Gibson (Red Hat) <dgibson@redhat.com>"
# gpg: aka "David Gibson (ozlabs.org) <dgibson@ozlabs.org>"
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* remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.8-20161028: (73 commits)
ppc: allow certain HV interrupts to be delivered to guests
spapr: Memory hot-unplug support
spapr: use count+index for memory hotplug
spapr: Add DRC count indexed hotplug identifier type
spapr: add hotplug interrupt machine options
spapr_events: add support for dedicated hotplug event source
spapr: update spapr hotplug documentation
target-ppc: Add xvcmpnesp, xvcmpnedp instructions
target-ppc: add xscmp[eq,gt,ge,ne]dp instructions
tests: Add pseries machine to the prom-env-test, too
spapr_nvram: Pre-initialize the NVRAM to support the -prom-env parameter
libqos: Change PCI accessors to take opaque BAR handle
tests: Don't assume structure of PCI IO base in ahci-test
tests: Use qpci_mem{read,write} in ivshmem-test
libqos: Add 64-bit PCI IO accessors
tests: Clean up IO handling in ide-test
libqos: Implement mmio accessors in terms of mem{read,write}
libqos: Add streaming accessors for PCI MMIO
tests: Adjust tco-test to use qpci_legacy_iomap()
libqos: Better handling of PCI legacy IO
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
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QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
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It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
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QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
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========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
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mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
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==================
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a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
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=============
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found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
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the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
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=======
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