Re: [PATCH 08/10] grub-shell: Boot PowerPC using PMU instead of CUDA for power management

[Glenn Washburn]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 23:04:02 +0000
Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com> wrote:

> At some point it looks like the defualt machine for qemu-system-ppc started
> using CUDA as a backend for power management. This causes the machine to
> throw an exception and not actually power down the VM[1]. Switching to PMU
> allows power downs and reboots to work as expceted.

As noted in the discussion on the qemu issue, this commit message is
not accurate. So I need to update the message, but the contents of the
patch will remain the same.

Glenn

> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/624
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
> ---
>  tests/util/grub-shell.in | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/util/grub-shell.in b/tests/util/grub-shell.in
> index 93e9f5148..5354d8678 100644
> --- a/tests/util/grub-shell.in
> +++ b/tests/util/grub-shell.in
> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ case "${grub_modinfo_target_cpu}-${grub_modinfo_platform}" 
> in
>       serial_null="-serial null"
>       netbootext=elf
>       trim=1
> +     qemuopts="-M mac99,via=pmu $qemuopts"
>       ;;
>  
>      sparc64-ieee1275)