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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: kvm BookE and SPRGs
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:31:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247243515.16706.4.camel@conventional> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247207486.15530.23.camel@pasglop>

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:17 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 17:15 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> > Sounds reasonable.
> > 
> > There are some old patchset which implemented the binary patch as Ben
> > described.
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=kvm-ppc&m\x122154653905212&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=kvm-ppc&m\x122154657905306&w=2
> > 
> 
> Interesting. Any reason why that wasn't merged ?

Basically because we ran out of manpower to maintain it. We didn't want
to push PV changes into upstream Linux, useful only to us, and then
disappear.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10  6:31 kvm BookE and SPRGs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  8:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  8:42 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-10  9:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  9:15 ` Liu Yu-B13201
2009-07-10  9:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  9:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  9:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  9:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10  9:43 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-10 10:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-10 16:31 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2009-07-10 16:40 ` Hollis Blanchard

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