Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Huth
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:34:00 + "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: [...] > > The second bug is kind of interesting. If you add ~ 256 disks (using > virtio-scsi), then it looks as if the firmware crashes. The total > console output is below. It looks as if "c >" is some kind of prompt. Yes, that'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:23:42AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I am now running a full libguestfs test which will take several hours, > but it looks as if -- even if this test fails -- it won't be because > of lack of emulation / missing instructions in qemu. The tests ran. I hit two bugs,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Tom, I tested your patches [see below] and I found they work very well. They solve all the immediate problems that libguestfs was hitting with qemu not emulating certain POWER7 instructions. I am now running a full libguestfs test which will take several hours, but it looks as if -- even if this

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Musta
On 2/18/2014 12:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I would love to test your latest non-upstream qemu patches, because > the better emulation of VSX may enable me to get libguestfs working on > ppc64p7. > > Do you have a public git tree anywhere which contains something > testable? T

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Hi Tom, I would love to test your latest non-upstream qemu patches, because the better emulation of VSX may enable me to get libguestfs working on ppc64p7. Do you have a public git tree anywhere which contains something testable? The published patches no longer cleanly apply to qemu.git. Rich.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07

2014-02-12 Thread Tom Musta
This patch series implements the changes to Altivec introduced by Power ISA Version 2.07. Tom Musta (28): target-ppc: Altivec 2.07: Add Instruction Flag target-ppc: Altivec 2.07: Update AVR Structure target-ppc: Altivec 2.07: Add GEN_VXFORM3 target-ppc: Altivec 2.07: Add Support for Dual A