From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:31:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support Message-Id: <1229020274.26586.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <49410D61.9090309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1229010795.26586.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49413A5A.8090008@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <49413A5A.8090008@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Christian Ehrhardt , Avi Kivity , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:05 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:53 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > >> This is v2 as version one had a type in it occured when splitting patches. > >> Mercurial somehow lost my changes to the patch description explaining > >> that, but the patch is right this way. > >> > >> Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > >>> # HG changeset patch > >>> # User Christian Ehrhardt > >>> # Date 1228999833 -3600 > >>> # Node ID dc1466c9077ab162f4637fffee1869f26be02299 > >>> # Parent 4c07fe2a56c7653a9113e05bb08c2de9aec210ce > >>> [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support for qemu gdbstub > >>> > >>> From: Hollis Blanchard > >>> > >>> Add basic KVM PowerPC support to qemu's gdbstub introducing a kvm ppc style > >>> mmu implementation that uses the kvm_translate ioctl. > >>> This also requires to save the kvm registers prior to the 'm' gdb operations. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard > >>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt > > > > Let's *not* apply this to kvm-userspace. We will submit this to qemu, > > and once we work out the right solution there it will be merged > > naturally. > > > > I don't oversee yet what you want to push upstream, but in case it's the > gdbstub support for kvm (including ppc bits): please note that I plan to > push the new interface once it is merged into kvm-userspace, avoiding to > spread the current, limited one as far as possible. > > BTW, would be great if you could have a look / provide patches for ppc > to support the new interface already. I am open for feedback, > specifically regarding its suitability beyond x86. I've been meaning to do this for a while, sorry. We'll take a look soon. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center