Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] qemu-sparc update

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 8 March 2015 at 19:04, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/03/15 09:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 4 March 2015 at 15:20, Mark Cave-Ayland
>> <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Here are the updates from my qemu-sparc tree. Please pull.
>>
>>>  MAINTAINERS               |    3 +
>>>  hw/ppc/ppc.c              |  161 --------------------
>>>  hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c    |    2 +-
>>>  hw/ppc/prep.c             |  163 ++++++++++++++++++--
>>>  hw/sparc/sun4m.c          |   10 +-
>>>  hw/sparc64/sun4u.c        |   20 ++-
>>>  hw/timer/m48t59.c         |  359 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>>  include/hw/timer/m48t59.h |   61 ++++----
>>>  pc-bios/openbios-sparc64  |  Bin 1616768 -> 1616768 bytes
>>>  qemu-doc.texi             |    7 +-
>>
>> Shouldn't there be an update to roms/openbios to go with the
>> pc-bios/openbios-sparc64 binary blob update?
>
> I haven't committed the sun4u MMIO patches to OpenBIOS yet because
> without the corresponding QEMU parts OpenBIOS SVN trunk breaks (and the
> QEMU parts have taken many weeks to get right which is a long time to
> leave things broken). Hence I've gone for just updating the binary which
> is SVN trunk plus the NVRAM MMIO accessor changes in order to preserve
> bisection.
>
> As soon as this is applied, I can apply my remaining OpenBIOS patches
> and then send a separate qemu-openbios pull request which will bring
> everything up to date.

Hmm. I'm not a huge fan of having the binary in git and the submodule
reference be out of step...

Alex, I guess PPC is the other openbios user -- does this make sense
to you?

-- PMM