PowerPC KVM-PR issue

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Wed Jun 10 21:23:28 AEST 2020


On 10 June 2020 at 11:06 am, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> On 10 June 2020 at 00:18 am, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> KVM-PR doesn't work anymore on my Nemo board [1]. I figured out that 
>> the Git kernels and the kernel 5.7 are affected.
>>
>> Error message: Fienix kernel: kvmppc_exit_pr_progint: emulation at 
>> 700 failed (00000000)
>>
>> I can boot virtual QEMU PowerPC machines with KVM-PR with the kernel 
>> 5.6 without any problems on my Nemo board.
>>
>> I tested it with QEMU 2.5.0 and QEMU 5.0.0 today.
>>
>> Could you please check KVM-PR on your PowerPC machine?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000
>
> I figured out that the PowerPC updates 5.7-1 [1] are responsible for 
> the KVM-PR issue. Please test KVM-PR on your PowerPC machines and 
> check the PowerPC updates 5.7-1 [1].
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d38c07afc356ddebaa3ed8ecb3f553340e05c969
>
>
I tested the latest Git kernel with Mac-on-Linux/KVM-PR today. 
Unfortunately I can't use KVM-PR with MoL anymore because of this issue 
(see screenshots [1]). Please check the PowerPC updates 5.7-1.

Thanks

[1]
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/b3/64/0cb364a40241fa2b7f297d4272bbb8b7.png
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9a/61/d1/9a61d170b1c9f514f7a78a3014ffd18f.png



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