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From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] kvm tools: Misc patches (mips support)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:25:11 +0100
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On 20/05/14 18:52, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 05/20/2014 02:20 PM, James Hogan wrote:
>> I don't know what Pekka's policy is for kvm tools, but to avoid
>> confusion I'd like to make clear that this patchset depends on a KVM
>> implementation (KVM_VM_TYPE==1 for VZ) which hasn't been accepted into
>> the mainline kernel yet.
> 
> Is that something that is likely to end up in mainline Linux in one form
> or another? If yes, we can merge early like we did with arm64.

Very likely yes, and most of the specifics of the MIPS KVM API have
already been pinned down for the trap & emulate KVM support which is in
mainline.

Cheers
James