From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbV49-0008KB-0j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:31:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbV44-0004uq-A3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:31:00 -0500 Received: from va3ehsobe006.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.16]:2241 helo=VA3EHSOBE009.bigfish.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbV44-0004ub-7i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:30:56 -0500 From: Wei Wang2 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:33:10 +0100 References: <201112141638.05345.wei.wang2@amd.com> <20202.12141.174045.345822@mariner.uk.xensource.com> In-Reply-To: <20202.12141.174045.345822@mariner.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <201112161133.10811.wei.wang2@amd.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-qemu: register virtual iommu device on qemu pci bus List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ian Jackson Cc: Anthony PERARD , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Keir Fraser , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Beulich On Thursday 15 December 2011 18:33:33 Ian Jackson wrote: > Wei Wang2 writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-qemu: register virtual iommu device on qemu pci bus"): > > Attached patch is for qemu to register iommu device on pci bus. Guest OS > > requires this to access iommu pci config space in some cases. > > Thanks for this submission. > > However, we are trying to focus development on the new xen-supporting > upstream qemu branches. > > This old qemu branch is basically dead. We will have to give it > bugfixes and security fixes, it in parallel with the new trees, for a > long time (because old guests may need it). So for that reason I > would really prefer not to add new features to it. > > Would you be able to rebase your work on the upstream qemu ? You will > need Anthony Perard's PCI passthrough series of course, and you will > also need to liase with qemu upstream (so I've CC'd their list) since > it will be their tree that you'll be targeting. > > If there is a particular reason why this work should be in > qemu-xen-unstable then please do say. I'm open to being persuaded. > > Thanks, > Ian. Sure, I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion Wei.