On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 01/10/16 11:05, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> This patch series adds a Niagara OpenSPARC T1 sun4v machine.
>> The most important new feature: it can boot Solaris 10 / sparc64.
>> The machine uses a firmware released by Sun as a part of the OpenSPARC 
>> project.
>>
>> The series are available under:
>> https://github.com/artyom-tarasenko/qemu/tree/sun4v-for-upstream
>>
>> The command line for booting Solaris 10 / sparc:
>>
>> sparc64-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc64 -M Niagara -L /path/to/S10image/ 
>> -nographic -m 256 -drive 
>> if=pflash,readonly=on,file=/path/to/S10image/disk.s10hw2
>>
>> More info under
>> http://tyom.blogspot.de/2016/10/qemu-sun4vniagara-target-went-public.html
>>
>> Artyom Tarasenko (29):
>>   target-sparc: don't trap on MMU-fault if MMU is disabled
>>   target-sparc: use explicit mmu register pointers
>>   target-sparc: add UA2005 TTE bit #defines
>>   target-sparc: add UltraSPARC T1 TLB #defines
>>   target-sparc: on UA2005 don't deliver Interrupt_level_n IRQs in
>>     hypervisor mode
>>   target-sparc: simplify replace_tlb_entry by using TTE_PGSIZE
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 scratchpad registers
>>   target-sparc: implement UltraSPARC-T1 Strand status ASR
>>   target-sparc: hypervisor mode takes over nucleus mode
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 hypervisor traps
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 GL register
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 rdhpstate and wrhpstate instructions
>>   target-sparc: fix immediate UA2005 traps
>>   target-sparc: use direct address translation in hyperprivileged mode
>>   target-sparc: allow priveleged ASIs in hyperprivileged mode
>>   target-sparc: ignore writes to UA2005 CPU mondo queue register
>>   target-sparc: replace the last tlb entry when no free entries left
>>   target-sparc: use SparcV9MMU type for sparc64 I/D-MMUs
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 TSB Pointers
>>   target-sparc: simplify ultrasparc_tsb_pointer
>>   target-sparc: allow 256M sized pages
>>   target-sparc: implement auto-demapping for UA2005 CPUs
>>   target-sparc: implement ST_BLKINIT_ ASIs
>>   target-sparc: add more registers to dump_mmu
>>   target-sparc: implement UA2005 ASI_MMU (0x21)
>>   target-sparc: store the UA2005 entries in sun4u format
>>   target-sparc: implement sun4v RTC
>>   target-sparc: move common cpu initialisation routines to sparc64.c
>>   target-sparc: fix up Niagara machine
>>
>>  MAINTAINERS                         |   6 +
>>  default-configs/sparc64-softmmu.mak |   2 +
>>  hw/sparc64/Makefile.objs            |   2 +
>>  hw/sparc64/niagara.c                | 177 ++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/sparc64/sparc64.c                | 378 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  hw/sparc64/sun4u.c                  | 382 
>> +----------------------------------
>>  hw/timer/Makefile.objs              |   2 +
>>  hw/timer/sun4v-rtc.c                | 103 ++++++++++
>>  include/hw/sparc/sparc64.h          |   5 +
>>  include/hw/timer/sun4v-rtc.h        |   1 +
>>  target-sparc/asi.h                  |   1 +
>>  target-sparc/cpu.c                  |  13 +-
>>  target-sparc/cpu.h                  |  79 +++++---
>>  target-sparc/helper.h               |   1 +
>>  target-sparc/int64_helper.c         |  42 +++-
>>  target-sparc/ldst_helper.c          | 388 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>  target-sparc/machine.c              |   4 +-
>>  target-sparc/mmu_helper.c           |  28 +--
>>  target-sparc/translate.c            |  42 +++-
>>  target-sparc/win_helper.c           |  46 ++++-
>>  20 files changed, 1171 insertions(+), 531 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 hw/sparc64/niagara.c
>>  create mode 100644 hw/sparc64/sparc64.c
>>  create mode 100644 hw/timer/sun4v-rtc.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/sparc/sparc64.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/timer/sun4v-rtc.h
>
> In general I think this is a great patchset, although obviously Richard
> has further comments on inner workings - excellent job! My only minor
> nit is whether -M Niagara should be lower-case to match the rest of the
> machine names.

I kept it the way it had been originally introduced, but am ok with changing it.

> One improvement I'd like to see is a patch to update the documentation
> to reflect the new sun4v machine, in particular covering where to get
> hold of the PROM/disk images as per the final commit message.

You mean the target-sparc/TODO, or is there more documentation?
I'd rather put it on the http://wiki.qemu.org/SPARC page.

> And also
> does it make sense for us to try and distribute parts of the ROM images
> with QEMU, and if so which parts and can we legally do that?

Good question. I'm not a lawyer, so I had no plans on distributing them.

> Finally my current understanding is that the atomics/target-sparc
> patches will go in first and then this patchset will be rebased upon
> those - is that correct? If so, I'll wait for the rebased version before
> I give it a thorough test over my sun4u images.

Ok. I'm off till the end of October, so let's postpone this series
till November or so.


-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu

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