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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vm state save/restore question
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

Hi,

Am 09.06.2012 13:34, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 20:53 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> (After some discussion with Andreas ...)
>=20
>> I'm looking at sorting out the state save/restore of target-ppc (which
>> means understanding in general how it works in qemu :-)
>>
>> So far I've somewhat figured out that there's the "old way" where we
>> just provide a "bulk" save/restore function pair, and the "new way"
>> where we have nicely tagged field lists etc...
>>
>> x86 seems to use the later for the CPU state, ppc is a mess and uses t=
he
>> former with interesting incompatible format change depending on how qe=
mu
>> is build :-) So I think that's one area I need to fix.
>=20
> Ok, so I'm told there are patches to convert ppc, I haven't seen them i=
n
> my list archives, so if somebody has a pointer, please shoot, that will
> save me some work :-)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-05/msg00524.html

Cheers,
Andreas

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