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    "name": "[PATCH-for-11.1,00/10] migration: Reduce uses of target-specific macros",
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        "From": "=?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>",
        "To": "qemu-devel@nongnu.org",
        "Cc": "Glenn Miles <milesg@linux.ibm.com>,\n Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,\n Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,\n Daniel Henrique Barboza <daniel.barboza@oss.qualcomm.com>,\n Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,\n Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>,\n =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, qemu-riscv@nongnu.org,\n Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>,\n Anton Johansson <anjo@rev.ng>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, =?utf-8?q?Phil?=\n\t=?utf-8?q?ippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH-for-11.1 00/10] migration: Reduce uses of target-specific\n macros",
        "Date": "Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:17:18 +0100",
        "Message-ID": "<20260325211728.89204-1-philmd@linaro.org>",
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    "content": "For the single binary (read heterogeneous emulation) project\nwe are trying to remove the uses of the 'target_ulong' type\nin common code (or code that should be common code but is\ncompiled a target-specific one).\n\nThis series aims to reduce the use of migration target-specific\nmacros. Since there is still a lot of work to be done, we\nintroduce the TARGET_USING_LEGACY_MIGRATION_VMSTATE_UINTTL_API\ndefinition to protect the targets which are already not using\nthese legacy migration macros.\n\nExcept for the SPARC targets, there should be no functional\nchange.\n\nPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé (10):\n  target/avr: Avoid target-specific migration headers in machine.c\n  target/loongarch: Avoid target-specific migration headers in machine.c\n  migration: Revert \"Add VMSTATE_UINTTL_2DARRAY()\"\n  migration: Remove unused target-specific macros\n  target/sparc: Inline qemu_get/put_betl()\n  target/mips: Inline qemu_get/put_betls()\n  target/i386: Expand VMSTATE_UINTTL_SUB_ARRAY for APX registers\n  target/i386: Inline VMSTATE_UINTTL_SUB_ARRAY() macro\n  target/sparc: Replace VMSTATE_VARRAY_MULTIPLY -> VMSTATE_UINTTL_ARRAY\n  migration: Restrict legacy VMSTATE_UINTTL() macros to few targets\n\n configs/targets/i386-softmmu.mak     |  1 +\n configs/targets/mips-softmmu.mak     |  1 +\n configs/targets/mips64-softmmu.mak   |  1 +\n configs/targets/mips64el-softmmu.mak |  1 +\n configs/targets/mipsel-softmmu.mak   |  1 +\n configs/targets/ppc-softmmu.mak      |  1 +\n configs/targets/ppc64-softmmu.mak    |  1 +\n configs/targets/riscv32-softmmu.mak  |  1 +\n configs/targets/riscv64-softmmu.mak  |  1 +\n configs/targets/sparc-softmmu.mak    |  1 +\n configs/targets/sparc64-softmmu.mak  |  1 +\n configs/targets/x86_64-softmmu.mak   |  1 +\n include/migration/cpu.h              | 59 ++++++----------------------\n include/migration/vmstate.h          | 22 ++---------\n migration/vmstate.c                  |  4 --\n target/avr/machine.c                 |  3 +-\n target/i386/machine.c                |  8 +++-\n target/loongarch/machine.c           |  2 +-\n target/mips/system/machine.c         | 14 ++++++-\n target/ppc/machine.c                 |  1 +\n target/sparc/machine.c               | 24 +++++++----\n scripts/make-config-poison.sh        |  1 +\n target/avr/meson.build               |  3 +-\n target/loongarch/meson.build         |  2 +-\n 24 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)"
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