Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv3 0/9] pseries: Fix and extend PAPR RTC implementation

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 06.02.15 04:55, David Gibson wrote:
> At the moment, the PAPR RTC implementation (actually a paravirt
> firmware interface, rather than a normal device) works directly off
> host time, and so doesn't respect the options such as clock=vm which
> can be specified in the -rtc command line option.  This series
> addresses those defects.
> 
> The above makes it clearer that the spapr RTC should probably be its
> own separate qdev, so this series also implements that.
> 
> Finally it moves the code from mc146818rtc for publishing the RTC time
> via QOM into generic QOM helpers, and extends the PAPR RTC driver to
> export in a similar way.
> 
> Changes since v2:
>   * We still need the rtc_offset field in sPAPREnvironment to handle
>     incoming migrations from older versions, but we no longer send it
>     for outgoing migrations.
> Changes since v1:
>   * Actually create a qdev device for the PAPR RTC
>     * Instead of duplicating the QOM publishing code from mc146818, move
>         it into a generic helper
> 

Thanks, applied to ppc-next.


Alex