Here's a rather late pull request with a handful of fixes for 2.12.
These have been blocked for some time, because I wasn't able to
complete my usual test set due to the SCSI problem fixed in 37c5174
"scsi-disk: Don't enlarge min_io_size to max_io_size".
Since we're in hard freeze, these are all bugfixes. Most are also
regressions, although in one case it's only a "regression" because a
longstanding bug has been exposed by a new machine type (sam460ex) in
the testcases. There are also a couple of sam460ex fixes that aren't
regressions since the board didn't exist before. On the flipside
though, they're low risk because they only touch board specific code
for a board that doesn't exist in any released version.
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.12-20180410' into staging
ppc patch queue 2018-04-10
Here's a rather late pull request with a handful of fixes for 2.12.
These have been blocked for some time, because I wasn't able to
complete my usual test set due to the SCSI problem fixed in 37c5174
"scsi-disk: Don't enlarge min_io_size to max_io_size".
Since we're in hard freeze, these are all bugfixes. Most are also
regressions, although in one case it's only a "regression" because a
longstanding bug has been exposed by a new machine type (sam460ex) in
the testcases. There are also a couple of sam460ex fixes that aren't
regressions since the board didn't exist before. On the flipside
though, they're low risk because they only touch board specific code
for a board that doesn't exist in any released version.
# gpg: Signature made Tue 10 Apr 2018 08:13:52 BST
# gpg: using RSA key 6C38CACA20D9B392
# gpg: Good signature from "David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>"
# gpg: aka "David Gibson (Red Hat) <dgibson@redhat.com>"
# gpg: aka "David Gibson (ozlabs.org) <dgibson@ozlabs.org>"
# gpg: aka "David Gibson (kernel.org) <dwg@kernel.org>"
# Primary key fingerprint: 75F4 6586 AE61 A66C C44E 87DC 6C38 CACA 20D9 B392
* remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.12-20180410:
roms/u-boot-sam460ex: Change to qemu git mirror and update
sam460ex: Fix timer frequency and clock multipliers
tests/boot-serial: Test the sam460ex board
spapr: Initialize reserved areas list in FDT in H_CAS handler
target/ppc: Fix backwards migration of msr_mask
hw/misc/macio: Fix crash when listing device properties of macio device
target/ppc: Initialize lazy_tlb_flush correctly
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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===========
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mkdir build
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For installation instructions, please go to
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