Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 00/14] ppc64: initial drop

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 08/02/2016 19:53, Andrew Jones wrote:
> It's been a loooong time since I posted v1 of this series, but thanks
> to Thomas' poking, and even volunteering to help move v2 along, I've
> finally picked it back up.
> 
> v2:
>   Besides rebasing on latest master, v2 addresses all of David's comments
>     - assembler cleanup
>     - jump into the RTAS blob we get from DT, instead of reproducing it
>     - don't store the RTAS root node, always hunt it down
> 
>   v2 didn't address debug-exit, and we still need a solution for that.
>   Plugging chr-testdev into an spapr vty is probably what we should
>   investigate first (as was suggested by Alex Graf under the v1 review).
>   For this v2 I just kept the hack from v1, but simplified it and
>   explicitly call it out as the hack that it is.
> 
> Additional known issues:
>   Latest F22 cross-compiler (gcc5 based) doesn't generate working
>   code with this series. I didn't try to debug. The 4.9 based compiler
>   I initially used on v1 works, so I reverted to that one.
> 
> Testing:
>   I only tested with qemu-system-ppc64 (latest) on x86_64 so far. I'll
>   try to get a machine to test with real hardware (and KVM) unless
>   someone (hi Thomas :-) beats me to it.
> 
> Standard cover-letter summary:
>   This series brings basic setup; starts a test's C entry point, main(),
>   and printf, exit, and malloc work. Three more series should follow this
>   one which must bring; vector support, mmu support, and smp support, at
>   which point I believe the framework could just evolve with the creation
>   of unit tests.
> 
> Patches also available here
> https://github.com/rhdrjones/kvm-unit-tests/commits/ppc64/initial-drop-v2

The only request is to not include zero-size files; just leave them out
and add them as necessary.

Otherwise it's nice. :)

Paolo