From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:31:55 +0000 Subject: RE: kvm BookE and SPRGs Message-Id: <1247243515.16706.4.camel@conventional> List-Id: References: <1247207486.15530.23.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1247207486.15530.23.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:17 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 17:15 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote: > > Sounds reasonable. > > > > There are some old patchset which implemented the binary patch as Ben > > described. > > > > http://marc.info/?l=kvm-ppc&m2154653905212&w=2 > > http://marc.info/?l=kvm-ppc&m2154657905306&w=2 > > > > Interesting. Any reason why that wasn't merged ? Basically because we ran out of manpower to maintain it. We didn't want to push PV changes into upstream Linux, useful only to us, and then disappear. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center