Re: emulators/qemu: backport octeon machine

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:20:07 +0200,
Brad Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2026-08-16 10:50 a.m., Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > Brad,
> > 
> > I had made a while ago an octeon 3 machien for qemu.
> > 
> > It was submited as:
> > https://patchew.org/QEMU/20260715134447.56007-1-kirill%40korins.ky/
> > and to make it work stable with USB disk it also needs:
> > https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/
> > 
> > I had tested it with OpenBSD/octeon for a few weeks under heavy load, and it
> > looks stable and sane.
> > 
> > I'd like to include that patch work to port's qemu but it is not small
> > patch, like for powerpc, so, I not completey sure.
> > 
> > Anyway, here I diff which adds it.
> > 
> > Are you ok with it?
> 
> I am not a huge fan of having very large patch sets in ports. I'll OK this
> for now, but if it gets in the way of further updates down the road I'll
> remove it.
> 

Thanks, I'll commit when this patch soon.

Thus, I still hope that it will be merged, and I'll keeping rebased version
of that patch set here: https://github.com/catap/qemu/tree/octeon

As soon as it conflicts, I'll sent the new version to upstream.

-- 
wbr, Kirill