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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH uq/master] kvm: Drop unused kvm_pit_in_kernel
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:49:09 +0100
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On 2012-03-21 14:41, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:39:47PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-03-21 14:36, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 03/21/2012 02:36 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> This is now implied by kvm_irqchip_in_kernel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> So we can't have -no-kvm-pit?
>>>
>>> No huge loss, but unexpected.
>>
>> See e81dda195556e72f8cd294998296c1051aab30a8.
>>
> I am curious what is the reason for upstream to not supporting disabling the
> in-kernel PIT separately?

It was considered no longer relevant:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/85393

Jan

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