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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 0 of 7] PowerPC kvm-userspace patches
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:55:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205376957.9736.38.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1205297439@thinkpad.austin.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:50 -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> This set of patches enables the following:
> 	-Device tree Support
> 		- Add libfdt to kvm-userspace
> 		- Add bamboo device tree to qemu source
>         	- Detection of host Device Tree attributes
> 		- Device tree loading
>        	 	- Ability to specify initrd on the command line
>         	- Ability to add kernel arguments on the command line
> 	- Ability to load compressed uImages
> 	- Ability to specify memory on the command line

This is good work, but I have some comments. :) I'll be happy to ack
this stuff once those are addressed.

> So now when running powerpc code on a 440board. 
> 
> Known Issues:
>    There is an issue currently where guest kernel is not mounting the initrd.
>    Working it now!
> 
>    But these changes should go in anyway.

I don't believe our initrd troubles have anything to do with qemu, so I
wouldn't worry about that here.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-13  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12  4:50 [PATCH 0 of 7] PowerPC kvm-userspace patches Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] Add libfdt to KVM userspace Jerone Young
2008-03-13  2:25   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] Add libfdt support to qemu Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] Create new load_uboot() & gunzip support to uboot loader in Qemu Jerone Young
2008-03-13  2:36   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-13 20:09     ` Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] Add PPC 440EP bamboo board device tree source & binary into qemu Jerone Young
2008-03-13  2:42   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-13 20:24     ` Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] Add dynamic device tree manipulation & change uboot loader for PPC bamboo board model Jerone Young
2008-03-13  2:53   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-13 22:27     ` Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] Modify PPC bamboo & ppc440 board models Jerone Young
2008-03-12  4:50 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] Add ability to specify ram on command line for bamboo board model Jerone Young
2008-03-13  2:23   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-13  2:55 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]

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