On 11/09/2016 02:02 AM, David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:05:35PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >> On 11/08/2016 01:36 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> The new powernv machine ships with a firmware that outputs >>> some text to the serial console, so we can automatically >>> test this machine type in the boot-serial tester, too. >>> And to get some (very limited) test coverage for the new >>> POWER9 CPU emulation, too, this test is also started with >>> "-cpu POWER9". >> >> and we see the minimum : >> >> [8450016,6] CPU: P9 generation processor(max 4 threads/core) >> >> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> >> >> >> >> With very minimal changes (definition of some SPRs and the use >> of the SHV mode), the guest would load the kernel. > > Applied to ppc-for-2.8. Good to have this basic smoke test for > powernv.
yes. qom-test is also starting a powernv guest. skiboot has a cool little program called hello_kernel that can be run in place of the real kernel, but that's beyond the qemu layer I guess For qemu, maybe we could do xscom accesses to test some devices. C.
