From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spapr: Add "memop" hypercall
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 03:22:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338434544.16119.39.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC35629.80704@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 13:40 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Depends. How do you detect it exists? Are you detecting kvm, or qemu,
> or the hypercall itself?
>
> I'd hate us to find ourselves in a maze of disconnected documentation
> with no clear guidelines on when a feature is available and when it is not.
At the moment SLOF just "uses it" when using the frame buffer. We could
advertise its presence via the device-tree, there's already stuff there
to expose what hypercalls or set of hypecalls are implemented for PAPR,
we could add qemu specific extensions.
Cheers,
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spapr: Add "memop" hypercall
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 13:22:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338434544.16119.39.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC35629.80704@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 13:40 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Depends. How do you detect it exists? Are you detecting kvm, or qemu,
> or the hypercall itself?
>
> I'd hate us to find ourselves in a maze of disconnected documentation
> with no clear guidelines on when a feature is available and when it is not.
At the moment SLOF just "uses it" when using the frame buffer. We could
advertise its presence via the device-tree, there's already stuff there
to expose what hypercalls or set of hypecalls are implemented for PAPR,
we could add qemu specific extensions.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 7:24 [PATCH] spapr: Add "memop" hypercall Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 7:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 8:38 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-21 8:38 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-21 8:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 8:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 9:06 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-21 9:06 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-21 9:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 9:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 10:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 10:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 11:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 11:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 13:55 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 13:55 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-21 21:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-21 21:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 3:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 3:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-28 10:40 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 10:40 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-30 8:25 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-30 8:25 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-31 3:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-05-31 3:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 3:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 3:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 3:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 8:30 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 8:30 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 8:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 8:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 8:54 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 8:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 8:54 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 9:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 9:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 9:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 10:29 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 10:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 10:29 ` Alexander Graf
2012-05-25 12:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 12:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-25 12:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1338434544.16119.39.camel@pasglop \
--to=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=agraf@suse.de \
--cc=avi@redhat.com \
--cc=kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.