From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:42:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] PAPR virtualization on PR KVM Message-Id: <4E41638A.2010707@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <1312907508-14599-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1312907508-14599-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alexander Graf Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org On 08/09/2011 07:31 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > In KVM for Book3S PPC we currently have 2 implementations. There > is the PR based implementation which works on any POWER system > you pass in and the super fast HV implementation which requires > libre firmware (so almost nobody can use it). Did you mean, non-libre? > > Currently, the two target two different machine types, with PR KVM > being used for bare metal system virtualization, while the HV KVM > is used to virtualize PAPR. > > In an effort to make things more cozy and transparent to the user, > this patch set implements PAPR capabilities to the PR KVM side, so > a user doesn't have to worry what the respective kernel module > supports. Any machine he's virtualizing "just works". > Nice. I went though it and nothing shouted "I'm wrong, kill me please", though I don't claim to understand more than 5% of it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function