@tlosm

Another very important feature related to sam460ex should be 2gb ram support

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new pull with more than 1GB (2GB) ram support


git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.0-20190204


Highlights are:
* A number of endianness handling cleanups from Mark Cave-Ayland
* Updated Mac VGA driver
* ppc4xx cleanups and fixes from BALATON Zoltan

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New Pull

git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.0-20190219


BALATON Zoltan (1):
target/ppc: Fix msync to do what hardware does

Mark Cave-Ayland (4):
cuda: decrease time delay before raising VIA SR interrupt and remove fast path
mac_newworld: change default NIC to sungem for mac99 machine
target/ppc: convert VMX logical instructions to use vector operations
target/ppc: convert vaddu[b,h,w,d] and vsubu[b,h,w,d] over to use vector operations


Richard Henderson (15):
target/ppc: convert vspltis[bhw] to use vector operations
target/ppc: convert vsplt[bhw] to use vector operations
target/ppc: convert VSX logical operations to vector operations
target/ppc: convert xxspltib to vector operations
target/ppc: convert xxspltw to vector operations
target/ppc: convert xxsel to vector operations
target/ppc: Pass integer to helper_mtvscr
target/ppc: Use helper_mtvscr for reset and gdb
target/ppc: Remove vscr_nj and vscr_sat
target/ppc: Add helper_mfvscr
target/ppc: Use mtvscr/mfvscr for vmstate
target/ppc: Add set_vscr_sat
target/ppc: Split out VSCR_SAT to a vector field
target/ppc: convert vadd*s and vsub*s to vector operations
target/ppc: convert vmin* and vmax* to vector operations

Roman Kapl (1):
ppc: fix crash during branch stepping

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new pull

git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.0-20190226


handful of miscellaneous fixes and cleanups

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@tlosm

The links you post are only handled using GIT.

You could insert a link to the GitHub interface instead, for example: https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/releases/tag/ppc-for-4.0-20190226

It's not only accessible to anyone with a browser but also comes with a changelog :)

Last edited by Leo on 28-Feb-2019 at 03:54 PM.

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hi @Leo

i write the git link because i have it from the qemu developers mailing list.
just make copy & past for the git link and the hilight upgrades.

Git is available for all main Os (Linux, MacOsX ppc,x86 and windows) plus for the homebrew systems.

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Chrome won't open git:// links: although I have git cli tool installed, clicking on your links just prints an error or nothing (depending on the OS/browser).

That's without mentioning the fact that your links are wrongly parsed by Amigaworld which crops the link in the middle.

But nevermind: that was just a stupid suggestion to make your links accessible to everyone...

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new pull:

https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/releases/tag/ppc-for-4.0-20190310
git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.0-20190310

Here's a final pull request before the 4.0 soft freeze. Changes
include:
* A Great Renaming to use camel case properly in spapr code
* Optimization of some vector instructions
* Support for POWER9 cpus in the powernv machine
* Fixes a regression from the last pull request in handling VSX
instructions with mixed operands from the FPR and VMX parts of the
register array
* Optimization hack to avoid scanning all the (empty) entries on a
new IOMMU window
* Add FSL I2C controller model for E500
* Support for KVM acceleration of the H_PAGE_INIT hypercall on spapr
* Update u-boot image for E500
* Enable Specre/Meltdown mitigations by default on the new machine type
* Enable large decrementer support for POWER9

Plus a number of assorted bugfixes and cleanups.

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New pull:

https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/releases/tag/ppc-for-4.0-20190319
git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.0-20190319

spapr: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls (2019-03-19 15:24:15 +1100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
ppc patch queue for 2019-03-19

This is a small set, it has a number of fixes and a couple of minor cleanups to go in for the hard freeze.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
ppc/xics/spapr: Fix H_IPOLL implementation

Cédric Le Goater (2):
ppc/pnv: update skiboot to commit 261ca8e779e5.
MAINTAINERS: PPC: add a PowerNV machine entry

David Gibson (1):
spapr: Correctly set LPCR[GTSE] in H_REGISTER_PROCESS_TABLE

Greg Kurz (2):
ppc/pnv: Use local_err variable in pnv_chip_power9_intc_create()
ppc/pnv: Fix variable size in pnv_psi_power9_irq_set()

Markus Armbruster (1):
spapr: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls

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Qemu 4 rc1
available to download



https://www.qemu.org/

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@tlosm
Fantastic!
Did you had the chance to try it out on your Threadripper?

Did you noticed any performance improvements while using AmigaOS 4.1, especially for what it concerns floating point operations?
Is it making an emulated Sam460ex more usable at all?

Last edited by virgolamobile on 28-Mar-2019 at 07:24 PM.

@virgolamobile

In this last months i cant use my computers because where they are (my man cave) im making some architecture modifications. Im really courious too. i hope next weeks i will finish all and finally i can start again use my computers.

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@ALL

a message from Zoltan for all

Hello,
Hardfloat is still disabled for PPC in QEMU 4.0 because no one has
implemented the necessary fixes for it yet. Volunteers are welcome. See:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg04974.html

Some AltiVec optimisation are in QEMU 4.0 but those are not useful for
AmigaOS which only runs on sam460ex currently which does not have AltiVec.
It may be useful for some benchmarks under MorphOS on mac99 using
AltiVec/VMX but maybe only the mplayer one as lame_vmx is still floating
point bounded. Other than that there were some other optimisations but
their effect is probably minor.

QEMU 4.0 will have the fixes listed on my qemu/amiga page in the News
section (an IDE fix, the lwsync patch and 2GB memory fix) and the
outstanding issue with some programs crashing (mentioned in known problems
section) that I don't know how to fix because it was only seen with large
programs or OS itself that I can't debug. I don't know about a simple
reproducer that could be easily debugged.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

Last edited by tlosm on 01-Apr-2019 at 08:43 AM.

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Qemu 4 rc2 available

https://www.qemu.org/

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4.0 rc3 available to download



https://www.qemu.org/

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PowerMac G5 Quad 8GB,SSD,SSHD,7800gtx,Radeon R5 230 2GB;
MacBook Pro Retina I7 2.3ghz;
#nomorea-eoninmyhome

Qemu 4.0 rc4 available to download


https://www.qemu.org/

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new pull:

https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/releases/tag/ppc-for-4.1-20190522
git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.1-20190522

Highlights:
* KVM accelerated support for the XIVE interrupt controller in PAPR guests
* A number of TCG vector fixes
* Fixes for the PReP / 40p machine

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@tlosm

Looking forward to seeing SAM460 emulation running well on my Quad G5.

BTW - Could you recommend a good Linux distro?

@JimIgou

mate 16.04.x
there is debian 64 bit too but is a port .

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Me too use mate 16.04 ppc 32/64bit on G5 quad.

One alternative is Fienix by Casey Cullen, a really ggod boy.
I suggest you to try this as first step, because is more updated and has a lot of impoerant tools like arctix fox browser and others.

Look also here:

https://www.powerprogress.org/en/interview/interview-with-casey-cullen-the-creator-of-fienix-a-powerpc-friendly-linux-distribution/

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