Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCHv3 0/9] ppc: loadvm/savevm fixups for -M g3beige and -M mac99

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 09/02/15 22:40, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> This patchset fixes up various bugs in loadvm/savevm for -M g3beige and
> -M mac99 so that it is becomes possible to save and restore image snapshots.
> 
> The focus of this patchset is on -M g3beige since this matches the majority
> of my test images, but there were some easy fixes to be made to -M mac99
> at the same time.
> 
> With this patchset applied both -M g3beige and -M mac99 images can be
> saved/restored whilst booted into OpenBIOS with no issues. I tested -M g3beige
> with a paused, disk-inactive Darwin 6 image and was able to resume
> successfully which was good enough for my needs.
> 
> I noticed some hangs can still occur when trying to restore an image
> where the disk is active which makes me believe that there is still some
> extra macio/dbdma state which needs to be included if someone is interested
> enough to pursue this further.
> 
> Most of the patches are straightforward except for patch 4 which came out of
> a discussion on-list between Alex and Paolo, and patch 5 which is a similar
> error except this time for the MSR register.

Ping? Just saw the other openpic patches go through the list and was
wondering if this patchset needed any further work?


ATB,

Mark.