[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/11] PPC64 Linux bringup patches v4

[Blue Swirl]

On 3/7/09, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> After spending even more time trying to get qemu-system-ppc64 to run Linux, I
>  get up to userspace now :-).

Great! I applied the whole series, thanks. The Uni-n patch left an
unused variable, I deleted that. Patch 10 had a line with only white
space but quilt caught that.

>  I also removed the lwsync patch from this patchset, as it only fixed symptoms
>  and no causes. It would be great if anyone would step up to find out how to
>  fix that, as it's not a ppc-only problem.

No, also Sparc translator eats nops without generating any output.
Nops are also somewhat common because of the delay slots and mandatory
delays between some instructions. Usually the compiler will put
something useful to the delay slot, but not always.