From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: GSOC 2011 (KVM for MIPS) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:43:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4D6225AD.6080507@web.de> References: <20110220130857.GA18619@volta.aurel32.net> <4D612232.70803@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig071B0470BB30F76DD4924A5C" Cc: Aurelien Jarno , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, kvm To: yajin Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:53915 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936Ab1BUIn2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:43:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig071B0470BB30F76DD4924A5C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-02-21 02:09, yajin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-02-20 14:08, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:32:31PM -0500, yajin wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> I have proposed an idea of GSOC 2011 about adding KVM support to MIP= S >>>> architecture. I have solid experience on MIPS architecture and >>>> familiar with qemu. I am very interested in this project. >>> >>> Having KVM support for MIPS would be really great. AFAIK there is not= >>> hardware virtualization support on MIPS (except if you plan to use th= e >>> supervisor mode for that), so how do you plan to proceed here? Execut= ing >>> everything in user mode and emulating the trapped instructions? MIPS = is >>> using a split address space depending on the mode, so that may not be= >>> that easy. >>> >>> All of that to say it would be nice to have a more detailed descripti= on >>> about such a GSOC, describing the your exact plans with a rough >>> timeline. This is especially true, given that adding support for a ne= w >>> architecture in KVM seems to be a huge task for a GSOC. >> >> MontaVista has KVM for MIPS on their product slides [1]. Maybe someone= >> has a good contact to them and can poke for more details. They probabl= y >> won't offer it for direct download but need to distribute it to their >> customers as open source anyway. >> >=20 > Hi Jan, >=20 > Thanks very much for your information. I am not sure how they > distribute their source code. Anyone knows about that? >=20 > Jan, would you like to be one of the mentors of this project? Your > experience of KVM would be very helpful. Thanks Your project is really interesting. But given that my bandwidth is limited and I've already a different project proposal filed, I can't commit myself to this yet. I may serve as a backup mentor, but no promises at this point. Jan --------------enig071B0470BB30F76DD4924A5C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1iJa0ACgkQitSsb3rl5xQ95wCgxtrYlRgK67bxc6kob3Uo5aP6 ItkAn2arUin4hkqCTUwMJINs+OJCmEs5 =RrxW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig071B0470BB30F76DD4924A5C--