From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] libkvm-s390 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:52 -0500 Message-ID: <487B9454.8030102@codemonkey.ws> References: <1215797386.6014.4.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <487B7216.4030608@codemonkey.ws> <200807141900.10467.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carsten Otte , Avi Kivity , kvm , Olaf Schnapper , Hollis Blanchard To: Christian Borntraeger Return-path: Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.186]:3621 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbYGNSBW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:01:22 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so2379017tic.23 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200807141900.10467.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Anthony Liguori: > >> Carsten Otte wrote: >> >>> This patch makes libkvm build and work on s390. It should be a noop for >>> all other architectures. >>> >>> >> I'm thinking of spending some time eliminate libkvm altogether in the >> next month or so. Noone seems to be using it for alternative userspaces >> and the code that interacts with it in QEMU badly needs refactoring. >> >> Dropping the abstraction will probably result in a big drop in lines of >> code and would probably make it more clear anyway. >> > > Does that mean, that I can stop finishing Carstens patch? > Depends. I'd say there's not a lot of utility making kuli use libkvm in it's current form. If you're trying to get QEMU working, then getting libkvm working is probably a good start. It's still not clear whether libkvm is a useful abstraction. It may be that we want to refactor libkvm to be more useful so it's not 100% clear atm that it's going away. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Christian >