Comment 19 for bug 1541902

I've enabled ppc64le builds for that ppa. Hopefully it proceeds to
automatically build the packages now, though I suspect the pkgs will
need to be re-pushed.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Breno Leitão
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jon, Serge,
>
> I think the PPA is somehow corrupted. I am not able to see the ddw
> package on ppc64el arch. It shows up in amd64 (and the source) but not
> on ppc64el. Take a look:
>
> $ apt-cache madison qemu
> qemu | 1:2.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1 | http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe ppc64el Packages
> qemu | 1:2.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1 | http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/ubuntu-ports yakkety/main Sources
> qemu | 1:2.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1ddw1 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-virt/ppa/ubuntu yakkety/main Sources
>
> It is missing the binary for ppc64el. I looked at repository itself, and
> the Packages file for yakkety in ppc64el is empty. Take a look:
>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-virt/ppa/ubuntu/dists/yakkety/main
> /binary-ppc64el/Packages.xz
>
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> Title:
> Enable DDW on qemu aiming GPU passthrough performance on Ubuntu KVM
>
> Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> == Comment: #0 - Breno Henrique Leitao <email address hidden> - 2016-02-04 10:48:25 ==
> This is a feature to track DDW support on Qemu/kvm passthrough. This is a feature to improve performance when using GPUs on virtual machines.
>
> The kernel pieces are already on version 4.2, and now we need the
> pieces on qemu.
>
> This should be sent upstream in 2 weeks, and submission URL pasted
> here.
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