From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] kvmtool: handle guests of a different endianness
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:54:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131011145403.GP14732@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381502195-8263-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:36:28PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> This patch series adds some infrastructure to kvmtool to allow a BE
> guest to use virtio-mmio on a LE host, provided that the architecture
> actually supports such madness.
>
> Not all the backend have been converted, only those I actually cared
> about. Converting them is pretty easy though, and will be done if the
> method is deemed acceptable.
>
> This has been tested on arm64, with some fixes to KVM and a set of
> changes to virtio, both which I am posting separately.
>
> A branch containing all the relevant changes is at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/be-on-le-3.12-rc4
Whilst this looks like the right sort of idea, I think the virtio spec needs
to be updated before we can implement this stuff in kvmtool. Have you warned
Rusty?
Will
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-11 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-11 14:36 [PATCH 0/7] kvmtool: handle guests of a different endianness Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] kvmtool: virt_queue configuration based on endianness Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] kvmtool: virt_queue: handle guest endianness Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:50 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-11 16:54 ` Robin Murphy
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] kvmtool: convert console backend to support bi-endianness Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] kvmtool: convert 9p " Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] kvmtool: convert blk " Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] kvmtool: convert net " Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] kvmtool: virtio: enable arm/arm64 support for bi-endianness Marc Zyngier
2013-10-14 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-14 13:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-10-11 14:54 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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