ppc patch queue for 2022-10-28: This queue has the second part of the ppc4xx_sdram cleanups, doorbell instructions for POWER8 and new pflash handling for the e500 machine. It also has a lot of performance optimizations in the PowerPC emulation done by the researchers of the Eldorado institute. Between using gvec for VMX/VSX instructions, a full rework of the interrupt model and PMU optimizations, they managed to drastically speed up the emulation of powernv8/9/10 machines. Here's an example with avocado tests: - with master: tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: PASS (38.89 s) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: PASS (43.89 s) - with this queue applied: tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: PASS (21.23 s) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: PASS (22.58 s) Other ppc machines, like pseries, also had a noticeable performance boost.