From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Otte Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split kvm_vcpu to support new archs (V2) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:46:27 +0200 Message-ID: <471CB7C3.7020607@de.ibm.com> References: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC85EF74@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <471AF5BA.4010506@qumranet.com> <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02440AE6@pdsmsx411.ccr.corp.intel.com> <200710221317.38961.arnd@arndb.de> <471CB6C9.6050207@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, "Zhang, Xiantao" , Avi Kivity To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <471CB6C9.6050207-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@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 Anthony Liguori wrote: > While both PPC and x86 may be able to use it, I doubt there will > actually be common code that ever touches it. Common code could figure whether or not it needs to save/restore the fpu register set, and call back to an arch specific callback to do so. On the other hand, your argument is hard to disprove without actual portability split of the code that works with the data structures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/