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39ac8455 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Implement hcall based RTAS for pSeries machines

On pSeries machines, operating systems can instantiate "RTAS" (Run-Time
Abstraction Services), a runtime component of the firmware which implements
a number of low-level, infrequently used operations. On logical partitions...
9fdf0c29 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Start implementing pSeries logical partition machine

This patch adds a "pseries" machine to qemu. This aims to emulate a
logical partition on an IBM pSeries machine, compliant to the
"PowerPC Architecture Platform Requirements" (PAPR) document.

This initial version is quite limited, it implements a basic machine...
4040ab72 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Implement the bus structure for PAPR virtual IO

This extends the "pseries" (PAPR) machine to include a virtual IO bus
supporting the PAPR defined hypercall based virtual IO mechanisms.

So far only one VIO device is provided, the vty / vterm, providing
a full console (polled only, for now)....
f43e3525 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Virtual hash page table handling on pSeries machine

On pSeries logical partitions, excepting the old POWER4-style full system
partitions, the guest does not have direct access to the hardware page
table. Instead, the pagetable exists in hypervisor memory, and the guest...