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ppc patch queue for 2023-11-07:

This queue, the last one before the 8.2 feature freeze, has miscellanous
changes that includes new PowerNV features and the new AmigaONE XE
board.

ppc patch queue for 2023-09-18:

In this short queue we're making two important changes:

- Nicholas Piggin is now the qemu-ppc maintainer. Cédric Le Goater and
Daniel Barboza will act as backup during Nick's transition to this new
role.

- Support for NVIDIA V100 GPU with NVLink2 is dropped from qemu-ppc.
Linux removed the same support back in 5.13, we're following suit now.

A xive Coverity fix is also included.

ppc patch queue for 2023-08-04:

This queue contains target/ppc register and VRMA fixes for 8.1. pegasos2
fixes are also included.

ppc patch queue for 2023-07-07:

In this last queue for 8.1 we have a lot of fixes and improvements all
around: SMT support for powerNV, XIVE fixes, PPC440 cleanups, exception
handling cleanups and kvm_pph.h cleanups just to name a few.

Thanks everyone in the qemu-ppc community for all the contributions for
the next QEMU 8.1 release.

ppc patch queue for 2023-06-10:

This queue includes several assorted fixes for target/ppc emulation and
XIVE2. It also includes an openpic fix, an avocado fix for ppc64
binaries without slipr and a Kconfig change for MAC_NEWWORLD.

ppc patch queue for 2023-05-28:

This queue includes several assorted fixes for PowerPC SPR
emulation, a change in the default Pegasos2 CPU, the addition
of AIL mode 3 for spapr, a PIC->CPU interrupt fix for prep and
performance enhancements in fpu_helper.c.

ppc patch queue for 2023-05-05:

This queue includes fixes for ppc and spapr emulation, a build fix for
the pseries machine and a new reviewer for ppc/spapr.

We're also carrying a Coverity fix for the sm501 display.

ppc patch queue for 2023-03-03:

This queue includes a stub implementation for the dcblc instruction to
avoid an illegal instrunction exception when using u-boot with mpc85xx.
It also includes a PHB fix with user-created pnv-phb devices and
Skiboot.

ppc patch queue for 2023-02-05:

This queue includes patches that aren't PPC specific but benefit/impact
PPC machines, such as the changes to guestperf.py, mv64361 and sm501. As
for PPC specific changes we have e500 and PNV_PHB5 fixes.

ppc patch queue for 2022-12-21:

This queue contains a MAINTAINERS update, the implementation of the Freescale eSDHC,
the introduction of the DEXCR/HDEXCR instructions and other assorted fixes (most of
them for the e500 board).

ppc patch queue for 2022-12-20:

This queue contains a MAINTAINERS update, the implementation of the
Freescale eSDHC, the introduction of the DEXCR/HDEXCR instructions and
other assorted fixes (most of them for the e500 board).

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ppc patch queue for 2022-11-17:

Short queue with a build regression fix when using --disable-tcg.

ppc patch queue for 2022-11-11:

Short queue with just a single pnv-phb fix from Thomas Huth.

ppc patch queue for 2022-10-29:

This queue has the second part of the ppc4xx_sdram cleanups, doorbell
instructions for POWER8,  new pflash handling for the e500 machine and a
Radix MMU regression fix.

It also has a lot of performance optimizations in the PowerPC emulation
done by the researchers of the Eldorado institute. Between using gvec
for VMX/VSX instructions, a full rework of the interrupt model and PMU
optimizations, they managed to drastically speed up the emulation of
powernv8/9/10 machines.  Here's an example with avocado tests:

- with master:

tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8:
PASS (38.89 s)
tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9:
PASS (43.89 s)

- with this queue applied:

tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8:
PASS (21.23 s)
tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9:
PASS (22.58 s)

Other ppc machines, like pseries, also had a noticeable performance
boost.

ppc patch queue for 2022-10-28:

This queue has the second part of the ppc4xx_sdram cleanups, doorbell
instructions for POWER8 and new pflash handling for the e500 machine.

It also has a lot of performance optimizations in the PowerPC emulation
done by the researchers of the Eldorado institute. Between using gvec
for VMX/VSX instructions, a full rework of the interrupt model and PMU
optimizations, they managed to drastically speed up the emulation of
powernv8/9/10 machines.  Here's an example with avocado tests:

- with master:

tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8:
PASS (38.89 s)
tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9:
PASS (43.89 s)

- with this queue applied:

tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8:
PASS (21.23 s)
tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9:
PASS (22.58 s)

Other ppc machines, like pseries, also had a noticeable performance
boost.

ppc patch queue for 2022-10-18:

This queue contains improvements in the e500 and ppc4xx boards, changes
in the maintainership of the project, a new QMP/HMP command and bug
fixes:

- Cedric is stepping back from qemu-ppc maintainership;
- ppc4xx_sdram: QOMification and clean ups;
- e500: add new types of flash and clean ups;
- QMP/HMP: introduce dumpdtb command;
- spapr_pci, booke doorbell interrupt and xvcmp* bit fixes;

The 'dumpdtb' implementation is also making changes to RISC-V files that
were acked by Alistair Francis and are being included in this queue.

ppc patch queue for 2022-09-20:

This queue contains a implementation of PowerISA 3.1B hash insns, ppc
TCG insns cleanups and fixes, and miscellaneus fixes in the spapr and
pnv_phb models.

ppc patch queue for 2022-08-31:

In the first 7.2 queue we have changes in the powernv pnv-phb handling,
the start of the QOMification of the ppc405 model, the removal of the
taihu machine, a new SLOF image and others.

ppc patch queue for 2022-08-04:

In this short queue we have a fix in the sam460ex machine where we're
not storing all GPIO lines in sam460ex_init().

This is not causing problems (as far as we're aware of) at this moment,
but this is getting in the way of a ppc405 rework we want to do for 7.2,
so let's fix it now.