The first patches are simple cleanups: - patch 1 move the pvpanic device with the 'ocmmon objects' so we compile it once for the x86/arm/aarch64 archs, - patch 2 simply renames ISA fields/definitions to generic ones.
Then instead of add/use the MMIO pvpanic device in the virt machine in an unique patch, I split it in two distinct patches: - patch 3 uses Peng Hao's work, but add the MMIO interface to the existing device (no logical change). - patch 4 is Peng Hao's work in the virt machine (no logical change). - patch 5 add pvpanic device in acpi table in virt machine v2 from Peng Hao is: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg03433.html v3 --> v4 patch 1,2 no modification. patch 3, add TYPE_PANIC_MMIO for distinguishing different bus device, virt + isa_pvpanic will abnormally terminate virtual machine. patch 4, "pvpanic,mmio" --> "qemu,pvpanic-mmio". patch 5, newly added. v4 --> v5 patch 1,2 no modification. patch 3 delete PvpanicCommonState structure. patch 4 VIRT_PVPANIC_MMIO --> VIRT_PVPANIC correct VIRT_PVPANIC's overlap start address patch 5 no modification. v5 --> v6 add document. the kernel part of the series: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/log/?h=char-misc-testing misc/pvpanic: remove a redundant comma misc/pvpanic: convert to SPDX license tags misc/pvpanic: change header file sort style misc/pvpanic: remove unnecessary header file misc/pvpanic : break dependency on ACPI misc/pvpanic : grouping ACPI related stuff misc/pvpanic: add support to get pvpanic device info FDT dt-bindings: misc/pvpanic: add document for pvpanic-mmio misc/pvpanic: add MMIO support misc/pvpanic: simplify the code using acpi_dev_resource_io pvpanic: move pvpanic to misc as common driver Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (2): hw/misc/pvpanic: Build the pvpanic device in $(common-obj) hw/misc/pvpanic: Cosmetic renaming Peng Hao (3): hw/misc/pvpanic: Add the MMIO interface hw/arm/virt: Use the pvpanic device hw/arm/virt: add pvpanic device in virt acpi table pvpanic : update pvpanic document default-configs/aarch64-softmmu.mak | 1 + hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c | 16 ++++++++ hw/arm/virt.c | 21 ++++++++++ hw/misc/Makefile.objs | 2 +- hw/misc/pvpanic.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- include/hw/arm/virt.h | 1 + include/hw/misc/pvpanic.h | 2 + docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 13 ++++++++++++- 8 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1