From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1YVy8J-0001UI-9O for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:19 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVy8G-0001O7-Lm for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVy8F-0002bo-OE for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:16 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:59660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVy8B-0002Zk-7w; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.88.2] (mjt.vpn.tls.msk.ru [192.168.177.99]) by isrv.corpit.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7947B4176E; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:06:08 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <550148F0.4030108@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:06:08 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Maydell References: <55012E99.3030408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: id=804465C5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 86.62.121.231 Cc: qemu-trivial , 778737@bugs.debian.org, qemu-devel Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] configure: enable kvm on x32 X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:06:18 -0000 12.03.2015 10:16, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 March 2015 at 06:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Here's a trivial change to enable kvm on x32 architecture. >> I'm not 100% sure the result works correctly in all cases, >> but this is a good start and in theory everything should >> work. > > Given the pessimism expressed in this comment, perhaps > we should delay this to 2.4 and when it's had more > testing? There's no pessimism really. It is a new arch for kvm, so _something_ might not work. In practice it works fairy well, see https://bugs.debian.org/778737 -- at least debian can be installed in x32 kvm. And we don't lose anything really because it is a new arch. That's why it was Cc'd -trivial. Thanks, /mjt From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVy8E-0001Nj-NE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVy8B-0002as-F5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:06:14 -0400 Message-ID: <550148F0.4030108@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:06:08 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <55012E99.3030408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] configure: enable kvm on x32 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-trivial , 778737@bugs.debian.org, qemu-devel 12.03.2015 10:16, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 March 2015 at 06:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Here's a trivial change to enable kvm on x32 architecture. >> I'm not 100% sure the result works correctly in all cases, >> but this is a good start and in theory everything should >> work. > > Given the pessimism expressed in this comment, perhaps > we should delay this to 2.4 and when it's had more > testing? There's no pessimism really. It is a new arch for kvm, so _something_ might not work. In practice it works fairy well, see https://bugs.debian.org/778737 -- at least debian can be installed in x32 kvm. And we don't lose anything really because it is a new arch. That's why it was Cc'd -trivial. Thanks, /mjt