Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 05/23] ppc: Enforce setting MSR:EE, IR and DR when MSR:PR is set

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 11/07/16 08:51, Cédric Le Goater wrote:

>> Hmmm if that's the same 9.2.1 image we were using for last year's GSoC
>> then it has been working fine here? From what I've seen both 9.2.1 and
>> 9.2.2 now boot fine, but please test and report if that's not the case.
> 
> Hello Mark,
> 
> I managed to boot and install a 9.2.1. Here is what I have used for 
> that :
> 
>  * qemu, David's 2.7 branch, plus Ben's patch "v2 ppc: Fix support 
>    for odd MSR combinations". 
> 
>  * openbios,  github's HEAD + the patch your patch from : 
> 
>       https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/openbios/2015-June/008722.html
> 
>  * iso, the os9.osi from 
> 
>       http://c-obrien.org/qemu-os9/testing/
> 
> There are a  couple of qemu errors :
> 
>       dbdma_unassigned_rw: use of unassigned channel 14
>       dbdma_unassigned_flush: use of unassigned channel 14
>       CUDA: unknown command 0x24
> 
> and invalids read/write on SPRs but it didn't cause any issue in the guest
> at installation time or later at runtime. I did not try network though.
> 
> So mainline only misses your forth patch. Looking really good ! 

Hi Cédric,

That's exactly what I see here, thanks for testing. For the unassigned
channels there is potentially scope for doing something better for ESCC,
however the aim for this patchset was to merge the minimal changes
required to enable testing.


ATB,

Mark.