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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm/arm64: Allow to use KVM without in-kernel
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On 22/07/15 08:19, Pavel Fedin wrote:

>> I don't care much for such an API, mostly because it will obviously
>> bitrot very quickly (your "broken VGIC" platform is hopefully a one off
>> that won't be repeated again, and the RPi is out of scope anyway).
>>
>> It would have to be extremely non-intrusive and completely safe for this
>> to be taken in...
> 
>  Ok, let's leave this API alone then for now...
>  Will then be a concensus if i tweak the thing a little bit and we just enable KVM without both vGIC
> and vTimer ? It will be an emulator's problem how to handle them then.

Well, let's see the patches first, and how invasive they are.

Thanks,

	M.
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