From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0OHL-0004iO-Vp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:14:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0OHI-0004ZK-0g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:14:27 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x242.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::242]:33927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0OHH-0004ZD-Qi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:14:23 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x242.google.com with SMTP id z129so10500848wmb.1 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 01:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Richard Henderson References: From: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <2b6eee7d-e83d-5d0f-c1ef-a8a85236807d@twiddle.net> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 01:14:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] target/openrisc: Implement full vmstate serialization List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stafford Horne , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org On 04/16/2017 04:23 PM, Stafford Horne wrote: > Previously serialization did not persist the tlb, timer, pic and other > key state items. This meant snapshotting and restoring a running os > would crash. After adding these I am able to take snapshots of a > running linux os and restore at a later time. > > I am currently not trying to maintain capatibility with older versions > as I do not believe this really worked before or anyone used it. That's fine, but you still have to bump the version numbers. r~