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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-NZpS4cJIG2HvQtjrzfazuQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support 32bit SVM host
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:15:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457A62A3.9000708@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4579CC40.5080601-NZpS4cJIG2HvQtjrzfazuQ@public.gmane.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> This is a pretty basic patch to enable KVM on 32bit SVM capable hosts. 
> It introduces a bit of ugliness with #ifdefs and redefining some 
> things that are only present in the 64bit Linux headers.

The way to avoid the ugliness is to send a separate patch to Andi that 
extracts the common definition into a new header file includable from 
both archs (see [1]).


> I've tested it only on an Ubuntu Edgy host (2.6.17) and with a Windows 
> 2000 guest.  It boots quite happily though.
>

Will merge asap.  Thanks for the good work.


[1] 
http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=249e83fe839a13b5dc94285daeeaf70f6e54d930

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-09  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08 20:34 [PATCH] Support 32bit SVM host Anthony Liguori
     [not found] ` <4579CC40.5080601-NZpS4cJIG2HvQtjrzfazuQ@public.gmane.org>
2006-12-09  7:15   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]     ` <457A62A3.9000708-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2006-12-09 16:24       ` Anthony Liguori

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