Accumulated patches for target-ppc, pseries machine type and related
devices.
* Preliminary patches from BenH & Cédric Le Goater's powernv code
* We don't want the full machine type before 2.7
* Adding some of the SPRs also fixes migration corner cases for
spapr (when qemu has no knowledge of the registers, they're
obviously not migrated)
* We include some patches that aren't strictly fixes, but make
applying the others easier, and they're low risk
* Fix to buffer management which significantly improves throughput in
the spapr-llan virtual network device
* Start with 64-bit mode enabled on spapr. This is the way it's
supposed to be but we broke it a while back and didn't notice
because Linux guests cope anyway.
* Picked up by kvm-unit-tests
* Still some bugs here that I'm working on
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.6-20160324' into staging
ppc patch queue for 2016-03-24
Accumulated patches for target-ppc, pseries machine type and related
devices.
* Preliminary patches from BenH & Cédric Le Goater's powernv code
* We don't want the full machine type before 2.7
* Adding some of the SPRs also fixes migration corner cases for
spapr (when qemu has no knowledge of the registers, they're
obviously not migrated)
* We include some patches that aren't strictly fixes, but make
applying the others easier, and they're low risk
* Fix to buffer management which significantly improves throughput in
the spapr-llan virtual network device
* Start with 64-bit mode enabled on spapr. This is the way it's
supposed to be but we broke it a while back and didn't notice
because Linux guests cope anyway.
* Picked up by kvm-unit-tests
* Still some bugs here that I'm working on
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* remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.6-20160324:
ppc: move POWER8 Book4 regs in their own routine
hw/net/spapr_llan: Enable the RX buffer pools by default for new machines
hw/net/spapr_llan: Fix receive buffer handling for better performance
hw/net/spapr_llan: Extract rx buffer code into separate functions
ppc: A couple more dummy POWER8 Book4 regs
ppc: Add dummy CIABR SPR
ppc: Add POWER8 IAMR register
ppc: Fix writing to AMR/UAMOR
ppc: Initialize AMOR in PAPR mode
ppc: Add dummy SPR_IC for POWER8
ppc: Create cpu_ppc_set_papr() helper
ppc: Add a bunch of hypervisor SPRs to Book3s
ppc: Add macros to register hypervisor mode SPRs
ppc: Update SPR definitions
spapr/target-ppc/kvm: Only add hcall-instructions if KVM supports it
ppc64: set MSR_SF bit
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
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QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
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