From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, agraf@suse.de, anton@samba.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:28:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D960B3C.6080107@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301631334-30795-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to
> emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions. More specifically it
> implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform
> Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short).
>
> Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than
> are currently supported. It also makes some significant cleanups to
> the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs.
>
> Please apply.
So what's a typical invocation for this? Is:
qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics
Enough or is something more sophisticated required?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> ---
>
> Changes since v5 of this series:
> * Include source for SLOF as a git submodule
> * Move our private hcalls (well. only one so far) to a range
> explicitly reserved by PAPR for this purpose.
> * Allocate an ample 1024 irqs in the XICS controller, rather than
> having a somewhat dubious calculation of precisely how many we
> need.
>
> Changes since v4 of this series:
> * Fix build breakages for powerpc targets other than ppc64 full system.
> * Since the pseries platform requires libfdt, only compile it when
> configured with --enable-fdt
> * Give an informative error if invoked with insufficient guest RAM to
> run the partition firmware. Without this, giving insufficient RAM
> - such as qemu's default 64M - would lead to the firmware failing
> cryptically partway through boot.
>
> Changes since v3 of this series:
> * Many, many checkpatch fixups
> * Integrated feedback from qemu-devel list
> * Added in-partition SLOF firmware
>
> Changes since v2 of this series:
> * Assorted bugfixes and cleanups.
>
> Changes since v1 of this series:
> * numerous coding style fixups
> * incorporated most review comments from initial version
> * moved to a wholly dynamic hypercall registration scheme
> * assorted other cleanups
> * many more patches implementing VIO devices
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 4:15 [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6) David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/27] Clean up PowerPC SLB handling code David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/27] Allow qemu_devtree_setprop() to take arbitrary values David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/27] Add a hook to allow hypercalls to be emulated on PowerPC David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/27] Implement PowerPC slbmfee and slbmfev instructions David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/27] Implement missing parts of the logic for the POWER PURR David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/27] Correct ppc popcntb logic, implement popcntw and popcntd David Gibson
2011-04-01 17:58 ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-01 18:02 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-04 2:56 ` David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/27] Clean up slb_lookup() function David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/27] Parse SDR1 on mtspr instead of at translate time David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/27] Use "hash" more consistently in ppc mmu code David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/27] Better factor the ppc hash translation path David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/27] Support 1T segments on ppc David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/27] Add POWER7 support for ppc David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/27] Start implementing pSeries logical partition machine David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/27] Implement the bus structure for PAPR virtual IO David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/27] Virtual hash page table handling on pSeries machine David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/27] Implement hcall based RTAS for pSeries machines David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/27] Implement assorted pSeries hcalls and RTAS methods David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/27] Implement the PAPR (pSeries) virtualized interrupt controller (xics) David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/27] Add PAPR H_VIO_SIGNAL hypercall and infrastructure for VIO interrupts David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/27] Add (virtual) interrupt to PAPR virtual tty device David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 21/27] Implement TCE translation for sPAPR VIO David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 22/27] Implement sPAPR Virtual LAN (ibmveth) David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 23/27] Implement PAPR CRQ hypercalls David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 24/27] Implement PAPR virtual SCSI interface (ibmvscsi) David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 25/27] Add a PAPR TCE-bypass mechanism for the pSeries machine David Gibson
2011-04-01 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 26/27] Implement PAPR VPA functions for pSeries shared processor partitions David Gibson
2011-04-01 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6) Alexander Graf
2011-04-01 16:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-01 16:30 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-01 17:28 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-04-01 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2011-04-01 19:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-01 23:20 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-01 19:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-01 23:21 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-02 0:06 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-02 0:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-02 0:21 ` Alexander Graf
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