Re: [PATCH V9 0/6] mips: Add Loongson-3 machine support

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Huacai,

On 9/16/20 4:12 AM, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Loongson-3 CPU family include Loongson-3A R1/R2/R3/R4 and Loongson-3B
> R1/R2. Loongson-3A R1 is the oldest and its ISA is the smallest, while
> Loongson-3A R4 is the newest and its ISA is almost the superset of all
> others. To reduce complexity, in QEMU we just define two CPU types:
> 
> 1, "Loongson-3A1000" CPU which is corresponding to Loongson-3A R1. It is
>    suitable for TCG because Loongson-3A R1 has fewest ASE.
> 2, "Loongson-3A4000" CPU which is corresponding to Loongson-3A R4. It is
>    suitable for KVM because Loongson-3A R4 has the VZ ASE.
> 
[...]

> Of course the upstream kernel is also usable (though it is "unstable"
> now):
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> 
> How to use QEMU/Loongson-3?
> 1, Download kernel source from the above URL;
> 2, Build a kernel with arch/mips/configs/loongson3_{def,hpc}config;
> 3, Boot a Loongson-3A4000 host with this kernel (for KVM mode);
> 4, Build QEMU-master with this patchset;
> 5, modprobe kvm (only necessary for KVM mode);
> 6, Use QEMU with TCG:
>        qemu-system-mips64el -M loongson3-virt,accel=tcg -cpu Loongson-3A1000 
> -kernel <path_to_kernel> -append ...
>    Use QEMU with KVM:
>        qemu-system-mips64el -M loongson3-virt,accel=kvm -cpu Loongson-3A4000 
> -kernel <path_to_kernel> -append ...

Can you add a KVM-only build CI job?
Simply building, not running test, as there is no MIPS CI.

See for example commit 41e1f0e2256 (".travis.yml: Add a KVM-only
s390x job"), but add it to GitLab instead.

Thanks!

Phil.