From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] Enable kvm/ia-64 to build kvm components in userspace. Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:52:40 +0300 Message-ID: <48762238.9070906@qumranet.com> References: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC0156FFED@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <486F3C7B.4010200@qumranet.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC015702DC@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <486F4B37.3010704@qumranet.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC0157079D@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Zhang, Xiantao" Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:38667 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758131AbYGJOwm (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:52:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC0157079D@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Zhang, Xiantao wrote: >> >> I agree that for automatic testing it's more of a burden; but it needs >> to be done, especially as some kvm features are only enabled on newer >> kernels. >> >> The external module is convenient, but it's not a substitute for the >> real thing. >> > > So, I have a question here, When will you drop external module support? > I don't really know. > You know, it blocks our auto-testing system now, we have to re-evaulate > the effort without external module support. > I think it's very worthwhile to update the autotester to be able to build kernels. kvm will soon depend on core functionality (mmu notifiers) and since currently kvm is the only user (well, gru will be added soon, but ...) we need to test it ourselves. > If it won't be dropped in a few weeks, we are eager to get its support > for kvm-ia64. > > Okay, please send the patches, but with diff -M so they're readable. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function