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: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:19:26 +0300 Message-ID: <03d901d0c44e$beadaa90$3c08ffb0$@samsung.com> References: <55A93488.9060408@arm.com> <00df01d0c22b$fcaef0d0$f60cd270$@samsung.com> <55ACAC73.9090500@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 mailout2.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.12]:47032 "EHLO mailout2.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756059AbbGVHTa (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:19:30 -0400 Received: from eucpsbgm1.samsung.com (unknown [203.254.199.244]) by mailout2.w1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.31.0 64bit (built May 5 2014)) with ESMTP id <0NRV00F74OCGOC10@mailout2.w1.samsung.com> for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:19:28 +0100 (BST) In-reply-to: <55ACAC73.9090500@arm.com> Content-language: ru Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello! > It means that a pause in the discussion for a week (or even more) is not > uncommon at all. It just means that the other party is busy with things > of higher priority. In all cases, a gentle "ping" will be better > received than this "you've stopped replying so I'm going to repost until > you stop ignoring me" kind of behaviour. Ok, sorry for that. > I don't care much for such an API, mostly because it will obviously > bitrot very quickly (your "broken VGIC" platform is hopefully a one off > that won't be repeated again, and the RPi is out of scope anyway). > > It would have to be extremely non-intrusive and completely safe for this > to be taken in... Ok, let's leave this API alone then for now... Will then be a concensus if i tweak the thing a little bit and we just enable KVM without both vGIC and vTimer ? It will be an emulator's problem how to handle them then. Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia