From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: RFC/patch 0/3 portability: please review Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:00:54 -0500 Message-ID: <1193781654.26183.44.camel@basalt> References: <1193766253.7800.43.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC8B5856@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <4727A7D6.5010406@de.ibm.com> Reply-To: Hollis Blanchard Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , "Zhang, Xiantao" To: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4727A7D6.5010406-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 22:53 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote: > Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > > Basically, It doesn't impact our side. For patch 2/3, we had better find > > an approach to handle mmio-realted functions, becasue they may exist in > > most archs. > > For IA64, if this move happens, we have to duplicate them in IA64 side. > Thanks for your feedback. This matches Hollis' view, I'll try to > rework that patch. We're really the only platform without mmio, that's > a s390 special case. I'll leave it in common and find a way around for > s390. Well, those functions right now are hacks that assume the only in-kernel device is an APIC. That won't even build for anybody who doesn't have vcpu->apic... that's why I say go ahead and move them, and we can worry about it later. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/