Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] Misc sm501 improvements

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:42:07AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 30 June 2018 at 21:34, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> >>
> >> Version 2 of the sm501 changes with fixes that are needed to get
> >> AmigaOS 4.1FE to boot and able to produce graphics.
> >>
> >> The strange blue-white colors that first appear are actually correct
> >> and because of AmigaOS selecting a low resolution PAL mode by default
> >> instead of a board specific mode. To work around this one can select
> >> the last option to boot the live CD and then select a better board
> >> specific mode from ScreenMode Prefs. It takes a while for the
> >> ScreenMode window to appear and graphics operations are slow which
> >> could use some improvement but at least it seems to work correctly now
> >> apart from some unimplemented drawing modes for compositing.
> >>
> >> If this could be merged before the freeze with the sam460ex patches
> >> and Sebastian's ehci patch then QEMU 3.0 could be the first version
> >> that can boot AmigaOS.
> >
> >
> > Ping? Sorry to push it but it would be great if this could get in for 3.0.
> > Peter, this may need your attention like last time as it's not clear whose
> > tree it should go through and David did not seem to be confident taking it
> > via the ppc tree.
> 
> I can have a look, but really I think these should go via the
> ppc tree -- the device is used in a ppc machine and an sh4 one,
> and the ppc tree is much more active than sh4.

Hm, well, if you like.  Although the gradual creep of my
maintainership scope into things I know less and less about makes me
rather nervous.  I tried to convince Balaton Zoltan to become sm501
maintainer, but he didn't bite.

Zoltan, I'm sorry I haven't been following this series closely since I
asked you to direct it to Peter.  If you resend to me, with whatever
accumulated reviews you have, I'll merge it via the ppc tree.  It
won't make the soft freeze, but seems we have a quorum to consider it
close enough to a bug fix, so we should be able to squeeze it in
before the hard freeze.

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