Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:04:25PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 07/18/2013 02:28 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On the kernel without the patch set the dummy-RTC timer interrupt received > > 30876 interrupts in a 30s period which is within measurement uncertainty of > > the expected 30*1024 =

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-18 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/18/2013 02:28 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > The kernel without the patch set has the "Using epoch 2000" line and > the kernel with the patch set is missing the "Using epoch 2000" line. Ah hah. You appear to be missing CONFIG_RTC_DRV_ALPHA in the new kernel, so you have no support for the RTC at

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:38:14AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 07/17/2013 06:14 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > Tested the patch series applied against 3.10.1 on a 3-CPU ES45. System came > > up fine but I noticed date was wrong and had been reset back to the start > > of the epoch (Jan 1 197

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-18 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/17/2013 06:14 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > Tested the patch series applied against 3.10.1 on a 3-CPU ES45. System came > up fine but I noticed date was wrong and had been reset back to the start > of the epoch (Jan 1 1970). Appears it is not reading hardware clock > correctly on boot. Please

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:34:08AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > The series seems pretty stable under QEMU, but I have no real hardware > on which to test -- the whole reason I'm interested in QEMU of course. > So I'm hoping that someone will notice this and help me out with testing. Tested th

[RFC PATCH 00/10] Alpha support for QEMU

2013-07-16 Thread Richard Henderson
While there are 3 patches in this series that are specifically related to QEMU, there are 3 more that significantly re-architect generic parts of arch/alpha that hopefully bring them more into line with current linux-kernel design, and 2 more that seem like they ought to work generically, but ought