From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:40:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Add KVM support for PPC64 (970) hosts Message-Id: <1247089250.6066.198.camel@pasglop> List-Id: References: <1246976262-4826-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1246976262-4826-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:29 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > On 08.07.2009, at 13:10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 10:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > >> What about userspace applications that use dcbz? > > > > That's generally the killer... but then, MOL was only ever implemented > > on ppc32 so we never had the problem. > > > >> But to run Mac OS X we first have to fix quite a lot of qemu stuff > >> anyways ;-). It might also make sense to only run osx in PPC32 mode, > >> as the PPC64 one doesn't add that much value. > > > > Yeah :-) We can pick stuff from MOL if we want to though, as it was > > all > > GPL. > > Thinking about it again, why did MOL never get upstream? :) No real need to. We had a few tweaks in the kernel to make it happy but it was a moving target for a while, and so it was felt easier to keep the MOL kernel module and userspace together in a separate package. Cheers, Ben.