From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support for qemu gdbstub Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:05:46 +0100 Message-ID: <49413A5A.8090008@siemens.com> References: <49410D61.9090309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1229010795.26586.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christian Ehrhardt , Avi Kivity , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel To: Hollis Blanchard Return-path: Received: from lizzard.sbs.de ([194.138.37.39]:15964 "EHLO lizzard.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755341AbYLKQHS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:07:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1229010795.26586.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:53 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >> This is v2 as version one had a type in it occured when splitting patches. >> Mercurial somehow lost my changes to the patch description explaining >> that, but the patch is right this way. >> >> Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >>> # HG changeset patch >>> # User Christian Ehrhardt >>> # Date 1228999833 -3600 >>> # Node ID dc1466c9077ab162f4637fffee1869f26be02299 >>> # Parent 4c07fe2a56c7653a9113e05bb08c2de9aec210ce >>> [PATCH] qemu: ppc: kvm-userspace: KVM PowerPC support for qemu gdbstub >>> >>> From: Hollis Blanchard >>> >>> Add basic KVM PowerPC support to qemu's gdbstub introducing a kvm ppc style >>> mmu implementation that uses the kvm_translate ioctl. >>> This also requires to save the kvm registers prior to the 'm' gdb operations. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard >>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt > > Let's *not* apply this to kvm-userspace. We will submit this to qemu, > and once we work out the right solution there it will be merged > naturally. > I don't oversee yet what you want to push upstream, but in case it's the gdbstub support for kvm (including ppc bits): please note that I plan to push the new interface once it is merged into kvm-userspace, avoiding to spread the current, limited one as far as possible. BTW, would be great if you could have a look / provide patches for ppc to support the new interface already. I am open for feedback, specifically regarding its suitability beyond x86. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 26 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux