From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:48:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493F8268.2040903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493D3A8E.1080101@siemens.com>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> btw, is it possible to emulate the old interface on top of the new
>> implementation? I feel unconfortable with dropping an interface (albeit
>> an unused one) without even a warning.
>>
>
> Would be possible, I guess - but do we really have to care? It only
> worked for VMX, only on UP, qemu has no support for it (I'm planning to
> submit the new interface once it's merged and settled), and I don't
> think many people actually touched the old one so far. And those who may
> throw the old IOCTL at a new kernel will get a proper error on return.
> Is this problematic?
>
No, just exploring our options. I'm okay with dropping the old
implementation.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 11:43 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: Improved guest debugging / debug register emulation Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] VMX: Support for injecting software exceptions Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Jan Kiszka
2008-12-07 9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 9:13 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08 9:34 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 9:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08 13:47 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08 14:57 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 15:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-10 8:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: x86: Virtualize debug registers Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: VMX: Ensure interruptibility when single-stepping Jan Kiszka
2008-12-07 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 9:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-11 19:15 ` [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Allow single-stepping when interruptible Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86: Wire-up hardware breakpoints for guest debugging Jan Kiszka
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-06 9:15 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: Fix and improve guest debugging and x86 debug registers Jan Kiszka
2008-10-06 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Jan Kiszka
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