Latest patch queue for ppc.
* Allow qemu to support a generic architecture 2.07 (POWER8-era)
compatibility mode. This is useful for guests which are POWER8
aware, but don't know about the specific POWER8 variant that
qemu (and/or KVM) is emulating. (Thomas Huth)
* Fix a bug where macio wasn't removing DMA mappings (Mark Cave-Ayland)
* Add a workaround for Linux guest's miscalculation of maximum
memory address (including hotplugged memory), which could break
when hotplug memory was combined with VFIO. The previous
approach was technically correct by spec, but differed from
PowerVM's behaviour enough to trip a guest kernel bug. This
works around the bug, while remaining correct-to-spec. (Bharata Rao)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.7-20160614' into staging
ppc patch queue for 2016-06-14
Latest patch queue for ppc.
* Allow qemu to support a generic architecture 2.07 (POWER8-era)
compatibility mode. This is useful for guests which are POWER8
aware, but don't know about the specific POWER8 variant that
qemu (and/or KVM) is emulating. (Thomas Huth)
* Fix a bug where macio wasn't removing DMA mappings (Mark Cave-Ayland)
* Add a workaround for Linux guest's miscalculation of maximum
memory address (including hotplugged memory), which could break
when hotplug memory was combined with VFIO. The previous
approach was technically correct by spec, but differed from
PowerVM's behaviour enough to trip a guest kernel bug. This
works around the bug, while remaining correct-to-spec. (Bharata Rao)
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* remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.7-20160614:
spapr: Ensure all LMBs are represented in ibm,dynamic-memory
macio: call dma_memory_unmap() at the end of each DMA transfer
Add PowerPC AT_HWCAP2 definitions
ppc: Add PowerISA 2.07 compatibility mode
ppc: Improve PCR bit selection in ppc_set_compat()
ppc: Provide function to get CPU class of the host CPU
ppc: Split pcr_mask settings into supported bits and the register mask
ppc/spapr: Refactor h_client_architecture_support() CPU parsing code
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
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Complete details of the process for building and configuring QEMU for
all supported host platforms can be found in the qemu-tech.html file.
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
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
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
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
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
-- End