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Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 11:14 am
by xeno74
FYI:
On 09 May 2017 at 11:08 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:42:51AM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After the first batch of KVM changes for 4.12 merge window I get the
>> following error message if I want to configure the Linux kernel with KVM PR
>> support on my P.A. Semi board.
>>
>> warning: (KVM_BOOK3S_64) selects SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU which has unmet direct
>> dependencies (IOMMU_SUPPORT && (PPC_POWERNV || PPC_PSERIES))
>>
>> Did you change the system requirements for KVM? Does it only work on IBM
>> pSeries machines now?
> That probably came in with Alexey Kardashevskiy's patches to
> accelerate the TCE (IOMMU) hypercalls. There was no deliberate
> intention to restrict PR KVM to IBM machines. I'll fix it.
>
> However, I expect that at least for now we will not support PCI
> pass-through on machines other than IBM pSeries, because the KVM vfio
> code needs some specific services from the iommu layer which are
> platform-dependent and probably not implemented on other platforms
> (maple, pasemi, powermac). If you have been using PCI pass-through
> successfully in the past with PR KVM then please let me know and we'll
> look at what is needed to keep it working.
>
> Paul.
@All
Do you use PCI pass-through with KVM?

-- Christian

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 12:30 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,

I compiled the alpha7 for testing today. Unfortunately I had to add POWERNV support to our kernel because without it, the kernel didn't compile with KVM PR support. I reported this issue to the kvm ppc mailing list today.

New:
Download: vmlinux-4.12-alpha7-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

Screenshot of Debian Sid/experimental with Mac-on-Linux/KVM PR and with the alpha7 of kernel 4.12:

Image

Cheers,
Christian

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 12:20 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,

Today, I released the alpha8 for testing.

New:
Download: vmlinux-4.12-alpha8-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

Screenshot of the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the alpha8 of kernel 4.12:

Image

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 9:22 am
by xeno74
Hi All,

The alpha9 of kernel 4.12 is available for testing.

New:
Download: vmlinux-4.12-alpha9-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

Screenshot of the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the alpha9 of kernel 4.12:

Image

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 4:24 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,

I released the alpha10 for testing today.

Download: vmlinux-4.12-alpha10-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 7:01 pm
by xeno74

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 4:55 am
by xeno74

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 9:19 am
by xeno74

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 12:19 am
by xeno74

Re: Kernel 4.12

Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 1:41 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,

Linus Torvalds has released the second release candidate of the Linux 4.12 kernel.

New:
Download: vmlinux-4.12-rc2-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

Screenshot of the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the RC2 of kernel 4.12:

Image

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian