From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 20 May 2014 23:29:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:21685 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S6855066AbaETV3EpomPl (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 23:29:04 +0200 Received: from KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (unknown [192.168.5.35]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id BA483D0D51903; Tue, 20 May 2014 22:28:53 +0100 (IST) Received: from KLMAIL02.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.97) by KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.181.6; Tue, 20 May 2014 22:28:57 +0100 Received: from LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) by klmail02.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.97) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.181.6; Tue, 20 May 2014 22:28:57 +0100 Received: from [192.168.154.101] (192.168.154.101) by LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Tue, 20 May 2014 22:28:56 +0100 Message-ID: <537BC837.7030507@imgtec.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:25:11 +0100 From: James Hogan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg , Andreas Herrmann , Pekka Enberg CC: David Daney , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] kvm tools: Misc patches (mips support) References: <1400518411-9759-1-git-send-email-andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com> <537B3A8E.70801@imgtec.com> <537B966E.9000708@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <537B966E.9000708@iki.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.101] Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 40194 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: james.hogan@imgtec.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:21685 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S6855066AbaETV3EpomPl (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 23:29:04 +0200 Message-ID: <537BC837.7030507@imgtec.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:25:11 +0100 From: James Hogan MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] kvm tools: Misc patches (mips support) References: <1400518411-9759-1-git-send-email-andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com> <537B3A8E.70801@imgtec.com> <537B966E.9000708@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <537B966E.9000708@iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: To: Pekka Enberg , Andreas Herrmann , Pekka Enberg Cc: David Daney , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Message-ID: <20140520212511.IkOlkoy2v5v-izNgU8XQRzsL7KeJbg9glz84Bg-dhMA@z> 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