Differential D22833

[PowerPC64] Enable virtio drivers
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Authored by alfredo on Dec 16 2019, 12:37 PM.

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rS356788: [PowerPC64] Enable virtio drivers

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This enables virtio modules on PowerPC* target.
On PowerPC64, drivers are also kernel builtin.

QEMU currently needs to be patched to in order to work on LE hosts due to known issue affecting pre-1.0 (legacy) virtio drivers.
The patch was submitted to QEMU mail list by @afscoelho_gmail.com, available at https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-01/msg01496.html

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alfredo created this revision.Dec 16 2019, 12:37 PM

Herald added subscribers: luporl, bdragon, jhibbits. · View Herald TranscriptDec 16 2019, 12:37 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B28175: Diff 65705.Dec 16 2019, 12:37 PM

alfredo added a reviewer: PowerPC.Dec 16 2019, 1:36 PM

jhibbits added inline comments.Dec 16 2019, 4:48 PM

sys/modules/Makefile
769 ↗	(On Diff #65705)	I've tested that your patched virtio drivers (from your abandoned review) work on powerpcspe as well, so why not put this under the MACHINE_CPUARCH == powerpc banner?

build virtio modules on all powerpc platforms

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B28179: Diff 65710.Dec 16 2019, 6:06 PM

alfredo marked an inline comment as done.Dec 16 2019, 6:06 PM

enable man pages as suggested by @bdragon

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B28182: Diff 65715.Dec 16 2019, 7:08 PM

alfredo edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Jan 8 2020, 6:06 PM

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LGTM.
I've tested this by applying the QEMU patch over version 4.2.0 and everything worked fine.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 14 2020, 4:35 PM

Closed by commit rS356788: [PowerPC64] Enable virtio drivers (authored by luporl). · Explain WhyJan 16 2020, 11:33 AM

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