Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:05 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:53 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >> This is v2 as version one had a type in it occured when splitting patches.
> >> Mercurial somehow lost my changes to the patch description explaining 
> >> that, but the patch is right this way.
> >>
> >> Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >>> # HG changeset patch
> >>> # User Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
> >>> # Date 1228999833 -3600
> >>> # Node ID dc1466c9077ab162f4637fffee1869f26be02299
> >>> # Parent  4c07fe2a56c7653a9113e05bb08c2de9aec210ce
> >>> [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support for qemu gdbstub
> >>>
> >>> From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> >>>
> >>> Add basic KVM PowerPC support to qemu's gdbstub introducing a kvm ppc style
> >>> mmu implementation that uses the kvm_translate ioctl.
> >>> This also requires to save the kvm registers prior to the 'm' gdb operations.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
> > 
> > Let's *not* apply this to kvm-userspace. We will submit this to qemu,
> > and once we work out the right solution there it will be merged
> > naturally.
> > 
> 
> I don't oversee yet what you want to push upstream, but in case it's the
> gdbstub support for kvm (including ppc bits): please note that I plan to
> push the new interface once it is merged into kvm-userspace, avoiding to
> spread the current, limited one as far as possible.
> 
> BTW, would be great if you could have a look / provide patches for ppc
> to support the new interface already. I am open for feedback,
> specifically regarding its suitability beyond x86.

I've been meaning to do this for a while, sorry. We'll take a look soon.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center