Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] kvm tools: Misc patches (mips support)

[James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>]

On 19/05/14 17:53, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These patches contain changes that I am currently using on top of
> git://github.com/penberg/linux-kvm.git (as of v3.13-rc1-1427-gd9147fb)
> to run lkvm on MIPS.
> 
> The core is David's work for mips support and loading elf binaries.
> 
> I rebased his stuff, rearranged patches somewhat and split out general
> (non-mips-specific) modifications.
> 
> I used it to test a paravirtualized guest on a host running KVM with
> MIPS-VZ (on octeon3).
> 
> Changelog:
> v2:
>  - Removed superfluous includes in tools/kvm/Makefile (mips)
>  - Fixed debug output format for register dump (mips) (when using
>    32-bit lkvm with 64-bit guest)
>  - Added comment for guest type (KVM_VM_TYPE) (mips)
>  - Added check for upper bound of len in hypercall_write_cons (mips)
>  - Modified patch sequence to avoid temporary introduction of
>    load_bzimage (mips)
>  - Added patch to return number of bytes written by term_putc
> v1:
>  - http://marc.info/?i=1399391491-5021-1-git-send-email-andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com
> 
> Please apply -- if there are no additional comments or objections.

I don't know what Pekka's policy is for kvm tools, but to avoid
confusion I'd like to make clear that this patchset depends on a KVM
implementation (KVM_VM_TYPE==1 for VZ) which hasn't been accepted into
the mainline kernel yet.

Cheers
James