From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Fedin Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm/arm64: Allow to use KVM without in-kernel irqchip Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:50:06 +0300 Message-ID: <007901d0c7a1$99981f50$ccc85df0$@samsung.com> References: <55A93488.9060408@arm.com> <00df01d0c22b$fcaef0d0$f60cd270$@samsung.com> <55ACAC73.9090500@arm.com> <03d901d0c44e$beadaa90$3c08ffb0$@samsung.com> <55B11AEC.4050804@arm.com> <008f01d0c625$45d91a90$d18b4fb0$@samsung.com> <55B26277.80205@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 'Christoffer Dall' , 'Eric Auger' To: 'Marc Zyngier' , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mailout3.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.13]:23720 "EHLO mailout3.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752600AbbGZMuK (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2015 08:50:10 -0400 Received: from eucpsbgm1.samsung.com (unknown [203.254.199.244]) by mailout3.w1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.31.0 64bit (built May 5 2014)) with ESMTP id <0NS3005TPIBJRV30@mailout3.w1.samsung.com> for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:50:07 +0100 (BST) In-reply-to: <55B26277.80205@arm.com> Content-language: ru Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello! > As I said before, not having a VGIC pretty much puts you in an uncharted > territory, and the amount of hacks you have to introduce are not really > worth the effort in mainline. And i agreed. So, i repeat the question. Will it be OK if we just enable KVM without both vGIC and vTimer, and that's all we do? It will be userland's problem how to handle them. I need to tweak my first patchset a very small bit in order to do this. Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia