On Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:51:50 BST Paul Burton wrote:
> This series introduces support for the MIPS Boston development board. It
> begins by introducing support for moving MIPS Coherence Manager GCRs which
> Boston software typically does to avoid conflicting with its flash memory
> region. An API is then added to retrieve the emulated MIPS GIC timer
> frequency, which is used to report system clock frequency to software via
> "platform registers" which the Boston board provides. An issue with the
> MIPS GIC that current Boston Linux kernels encounter is fixed, and an API
> introduced to allow the board to determine whether the MIPS CPS hardware is
> supported.
> 
> The last 3 patches are more extensive, providing support for the FIT image
> format used with Boston, the Xilinx PCIe controller which Boston boards
> include 3 of, and finally the Boston board support itself.
> 
> This can be tested with either U-Boot or Linux if desired. U-Boot support is
> available in the following patchset:
> 
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg221003.html
> 
> Linux kernel support can be found as part of the generic kernel patchset:
> 
>   https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2016-08/msg00456.html
> 
> Hopefully this will be merged for v4.9, but it can also be found in a
> downstream kernel from Imagination Technologies in the "eng" branch of:
> 
>   git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux-mti.git
> 
> Linux may be built with:
> 
>   $ make 64r6el_defconfig
>   $ make
> 
> The arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.gz.itb image may then be provided to QEMU's
> -kernel argument, for example:
> 
>   $ qemu-system-mips64el -M boston -kernel vmlinux.gz.itb -serial stdio
> 
> Paul Burton (8):
>   hw/mips_cmgcr: allow GCR base to be moved
>   hw/mips_gictimer: provide API for retrieving frequency
>   hw/mips_gic: Update pin state on mask changes
>   target-mips: Provide function to test if a CPU supports an ISA
>   dtc: Update requirement to v1.4.2
>   loader: Support Flattened Image Trees (FIT images)
>   hw: xilinx-pcie: Add support for Xilinx AXI PCIe Controller
>   hw/mips: MIPS Boston board support
> 
>  configure                               |   8 +-
>  default-configs/mips-softmmu-common.mak |   2 +
>  dtc                                     |   2 +-
>  hw/core/Makefile.objs                   |   1 +
>  hw/core/loader-fit.c                    | 287 +++++++++++++++++
>  hw/core/loader.c                        |   3 +-
>  hw/intc/mips_gic.c                      |  56 ++--
>  hw/mips/Makefile.objs                   |   1 +
>  hw/mips/boston.c                        | 526
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/misc/mips_cmgcr.c                    | 
> 17 ++
>  hw/pci-host/Makefile.objs               |   1 +
>  hw/pci-host/xilinx-pcie.c               | 310 +++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/timer/mips_gictimer.c                |   5 +
>  include/hw/loader-fit.h                 |  41 +++
>  include/hw/loader.h                     |   2 +
>  include/hw/misc/mips_cmgcr.h            |   3 +
>  include/hw/pci-host/xilinx-pcie.h       | 102 +++++++
>  include/hw/timer/mips_gictimer.h        |   1 +
>  target-mips/cpu.h                       |   1 +
>  target-mips/translate.c                 |  10 +
>  20 files changed, 1347 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/core/loader-fit.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/mips/boston.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/pci-host/xilinx-pcie.c
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/loader-fit.h
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/pci-host/xilinx-pcie.h

Hello,

Is there anything else I can do to move this along? These patches have been 
sat waiting for review or merging for what's approaching 2 months now.

Thanks,
    Paul