On 08.03.15 06:57, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 08/03/15 10:31, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 8 March 2015 at 19:04, Mark Cave-Ayland >> <mark.cave-ayl...@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-ayl...@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... > > Alternatively if you have shell access to git.qemu.org then I can commit > just the MMIO accessor changes to SVN trunk now and then with a manual > update to the OpenBIOS git mirror I can re-send the signed pull request > with updated binaries? I've deliberately held off applying patches to > OpenBIOS SVN trunk in case this was the preferred method as I'm keen to > be able to bisect down to this particular change on SPARC64.
Is there any way to make the change backwards compatible, so that we don't need to sync versions? Alex