Comment 63 for bug 1656112

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-04-04 14:08 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #38)
> - do you think there are more than the 5 you identified?
> - Given the report that the 2.6.1 from yakkety works there must be something
> between 2.5 to 2.6.1 that we miss not from 2.7 as the identified patches so
> far were.

Yes, there were 2 patches from 2.6.1 that were needed in the backport of 2.5.0 together with the 5 patches already mentioned by lagarcia.

I've backported all of them in a 2.5.0 tree and sucessfully ran a sanity test in a 8335-GTB machine. I've uploaded the backported 2.5.0 tree to my github mirror:

https://github.com/danielhb/qemu/tree/2.5.0_8335-GTB

This is the breakdown of the patches that were backported to 2.5.0:

from 2.6.1:

commit 9d6ba75df26d699a6e23d4817983bd029898f5c7
Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 11 11:15:46 2015 +1100

target-ppc: Use sensible POWER8/POWER8E versions
commit a88dced8eb69730df39cb04bb3e262e5b98d5f5c
Author: Alexey Kardashevskiy <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 3 11:08:19 2016 +1100

target-ppc: Add PVR for POWER8NVL processor

from 2.7.0:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=7386ae6372cc07c77a39cb
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=8cd2ce7aaa3c3fadc561f4
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=52b2519c4ea9a6aa4df7ab
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=eac4fba965136f61cc239a
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=b30ff227c27c931155f768

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Daniel