Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] RISC-V Patches for the 4.2 Soft Freeze, Part 1, v3

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 16:27, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> wrote:
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> The following changes since commit f8c3db33a5e863291182f8862ddf81618a7c6194:
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>   target/sparc: Switch to do_transaction_failed() hook (2019-09-17 12:01:00 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
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>   git://github.com/palmer-dabbelt/qemu.git tags/riscv-for-master-4.2-sf1-v3
>
> for you to fetch changes up to b3e86929189c526d22ef49e18f2f5066535f6deb:
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>   gdbstub: riscv: fix the fflags registers (2019-09-17 08:42:50 -0700)
>
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> RISC-V Patches for the 4.2 Soft Freeze, Part 1, v3
>
> This contains quite a few patches that I'd like to target for 4.2.
> They're mostly emulation fixes for the sifive_u board, which now much
> more closely matches the hardware and can therefor run the same fireware
> as what gets loaded onto the board.  Additional user-visible
> improvements include:
>
> * support for loading initrd files from the command line into Linux, via
>   /chosen/linux,initrd-{start,end} device tree nodes.
> * The conversion of LOG_TRACE to trace events.
> * The addition of clock DT nodes for our uart and ethernet.
>
> This also includes some preliminary work for the H extension patches,
> but does not include the H extension patches as I haven't had time to
> review them yet.
>
> This passes my OE boot test on 32-bit and 64-bit virt machines, as well
> as a 64-bit upstream Linux boot on the sifive_u machine.  It has been
> fixed to actually pass "make check" this time.
>
> Changes since v2 (never made it to the list):
>
> * Sets the sifive_u machine default core count to 2 instead of 5.
>
> Changes since v1 <20190910190513.21160-1-palmer@sifive.com>:
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> * Sets the sifive_u machine default core count to 5 instead of 1, as
>   it's impossible to have a single core sifive_u machine.
>


Applied, thanks.

Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.2
for any user-visible changes.

-- PMM