From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas-kLeDWSohozoJb6fo7hG9ng@public.gmane.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
Hollis Blanchard
<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
"Zhang,
Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
Jeremy Katz <katzj-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: How to handle kvm-abi-10 case for other archs.
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:49:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204184939.GA10466@tapir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47513308.9020407-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:10:16PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > Hi, Avi
> > I think new archs for kvm doesn't need to care about kvm-abi
> > case in their code, since current abi is bigger than 10. But in current
> > libkvm.c, we can see that many abi-specific code in it. How to handle it
> > ? Can we use __x86__ macro to make it sightless for other archs or
> > other good methods ?
> >
>
> #ifdef is okay for this. Actually we can probably remove abi 10 support
> since the F7 kernel now supports the modern ABI (I don't think anybody
> else uses abi 10, which is pre 2.6.22 when we announced ABI compatibility.
ubuntu feisty uses kernel 2.6.20 and is packaging kvm-16 :
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/misc/kvm
their last release (gutsy) uses 2.6.22 though.
Carlo
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2007-12-01 4:00 How to handle kvm-abi-10 case for other archs Zhang, Xiantao
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2007-12-01 10:10 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-12-03 13:09 ` Jeremy Katz
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2007-12-03 13:30 ` Zhang, Xiantao
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2007-12-04 18:24 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-12-05 0:04 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2007-12-04 18:49 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [this message]
2007-12-05 14:16 ` Avi Kivity
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