From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Patch Tracking" <patches@linaro.org>,
"Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Joss Reeves" <joseph.reeves@gmail.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Aurelien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 0/3] hw/pci-host/versatile: Fix issues with newer kernels
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:02:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdaMwp9++SYLicKvFqQKMgcWTb1ZOD+L=JT_Q0N9fD9FNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368545616-22344-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> The reworking of the versatile PCI controller model so that it actually
> behaved like hardware included an attempt to autodetect whether the
> guest Linux kernel was assuming the old broken behaviour. Unfortunately
> it turns out that there are several different variant broken kernels
> which behave slightly differently (though none of them will work on
> real hardware). The first two patches in this series improve the
> autodetection so that we will work out of the box on more kernels.
> The third patch adds a property for forcing the behaviour, so that
> if there are further cases we didn't know about, at least users have
> a command line workaround they can enable.
This looks like a viable approach to me. So FWIW:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-15 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-14 15:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 0/3] hw/pci-host/versatile: Fix issues with newer kernels Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 15:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 1/3] Revert "versatile_pci: Put the host bridge PCI device at slot 29" Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 15:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 2/3] hw/pci-host/versatile.c: Update autodetect to detect newer kernels Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 15:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 3/3] hw/pci-host/versatile.c: Provide property for forcing broken IRQ mapping Peter Maydell
2013-05-15 14:02 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2013-05-16 16:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 0/3] hw/pci-host/versatile: Fix issues with newer kernels Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-16 17:07 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-17 11:50 ` Linus Walleij
2013-05-17 12:10 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-16 12:50 ` Anthony Liguori
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