Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3E: AltiVec support

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 06/05/2013 02:10:07 AM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 12:39 AM
> > To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
> > Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-
> > dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Alexander Graf
> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3E: AltiVec support
> >
> > On 06/03/2013 03:54:22 PM, Mihai Caraman wrote:
> > > Mihai Caraman (6):
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Fix AltiVec interrupt numbers and build =20
> breakage
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Refactor SPE_FP exit handling
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Rename IRQPRIO names to accommodate ALTIVEC
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Add AltiVec support
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Add ONE_REG AltiVec support
> > >   KVM: PPC: Book3E: Enhance FPU laziness
> > >
> > >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h    |   16 ++-
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c              |  189
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.h              |    4 +-
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S |    8 +-
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c               |   10 +-
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c       |    8 +-
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c             |   10 ++-
> > >  7 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> >
> > This looks like a bit much for 3.10 (certainly, subject lines like
> > "refactor" and "enhance" and "add support" aren't going to make =20
> Linus
> > happy given that we're past rc4) so I think we should apply
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/242896/ for 3.10.  Then for 3.11,
> > revert it after applying this patchset.
> >
>=20
> Why not 1/6 plus e6500 removal?

1/6 is not a bugfix.

-Scott=