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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	kvm-ppc-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	jyoung5-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 0 of 7] PowerPC Embedded	KVM qemu enablement patches
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201538916.8969.6.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479E0029.3090906-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:17 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jerone Young wrote:
> > The issue here is that qemu does not support u-boot firmware. What we
> > are doing is actually loading a u-boot image and booting Linux directly
> > with a pre made device tree (which is something normally u-boot firmware
> > would provide Linux). So this code wouldn't fit into plain qemu just
> > yet.
> >   
> 
> In theory, it would still work with QEMU though right?  It just requires 
> a custom guest kernel.

Qemu does not emulate the 440 core, but that's what our KVM code
supports. Bamboo is a 440EP reference board, so the Bamboo setup will be
useless to qemu until they get 440 support.

That said, there are only 2 places that we make KVM-specific calls in
this code, and those can easily be protected with "kvm_allowed" checks
in the future.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28  3:16 [PATCH 0 of 7] PowerPC Embedded KVM qemu enablement patches Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] Enhnace kvm-userspace configure script for powerpc Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] Ensure 4kB page alignment for embedded powerpc when using kvm Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] Chnage so that Powerpc & IA64 do not have KVM_EXTRA_PAGES set Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] Add vcpu to arguments of powerpc libkvm callbacks Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] Add qemu powerpc build support Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] Add powerpc KVM support to qemu Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:16 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] Add Powerpc 440 board model "bamboo" to take advantage of Powerpc KVM Jerone Young
2008-01-28  3:46 ` [PATCH 0 of 7] PowerPC Embedded KVM qemu enablement patches Anthony Liguori
     [not found]   ` <479D5032.6050807-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 16:01     ` Jerone Young
2008-01-28 16:17       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]         ` <479E0029.3090906-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 16:20           ` Jerone Young
2008-01-28 16:48           ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2008-01-28 11:03 ` Avi Kivity

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