From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Fedin Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm/arm64: Allow to use KVM without in-kernel irqchip Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:50:06 +0300 Message-ID: <007901d0c7a1$99981f50$ccc85df0$@samsung.com> References: <55A93488.9060408@arm.com> <00df01d0c22b$fcaef0d0$f60cd270$@samsung.com> <55ACAC73.9090500@arm.com> <03d901d0c44e$beadaa90$3c08ffb0$@samsung.com> <55B11AEC.4050804@arm.com> <008f01d0c625$45d91a90$d18b4fb0$@samsung.com> <55B26277.80205@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <55B26277.80205@arm.com> Content-language: ru Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: 'Marc Zyngier' , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: 'Christoffer Dall' , 'Eric Auger' List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Hello! > As I said before, not having a VGIC pretty much puts you in an uncharted > territory, and the amount of hacks you have to introduce are not really > worth the effort in mainline. And i agreed. So, i repeat the question. Will it be OK if we just enable KVM without both vGIC and vTimer, and that's all we do? It will be userland's problem how to handle them. I need to tweak my first patchset a very small bit in order to do this. Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia