From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>, Daniel Arai <arai@vmware.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: hardwired VMI crap
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:43:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703082243.31659.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070308213458.GA24634@elte.hu>
> what we do _NOT_ want is some mixture of 'simplified' and 'hardwired'
> native hardware access mixed with hypercalls that somehow ends up
> creating a Frankenstein mixture of 'virtual silicon', is specified
> nowhere else but in VMWare's proprietary hypervisor source code that we
> have no way to fix and no way to even see!
Hmm, but we already drive the "vmware silicon" quite successfully with
fully virtualized kernels. And apparently the VMI version is the same,
just with some short cuts. Are you just worried about the ->apic_write()
hooks or about something else too?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 21:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <45ED16D2.3000202@vmware.com>
[not found] ` <20070306084258.GA15745@elte.hu>
[not found] ` <20070306084647.GA16280@elte.hu>
2007-03-06 8:55 ` + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree Zachary Amsden
2007-03-06 10:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-06 21:07 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-06 22:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 21:32 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-06 23:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 0:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 0:35 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 0:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 0:53 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 1:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 2:08 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 8:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07 18:03 ` James Morris
2007-03-07 18:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 0:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-07 17:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07 18:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 18:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 18:11 ` James Morris
2007-03-07 18:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 19:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 19:49 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 20:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 20:49 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 21:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 20:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 21:02 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 21:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 21:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 21:14 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 21:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 21:33 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 22:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 23:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 23:25 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-07 23:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 23:40 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 18:30 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 0:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 1:01 ` Daniel Arai
2007-03-08 1:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 7:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 7:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 8:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 18:24 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 18:44 ` Daniel Arai
2007-03-08 19:14 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 19:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-08 19:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 19:47 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 19:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 20:10 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 20:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 20:23 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 20:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 20:42 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-08 20:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 21:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-08 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20070308091019.GA19460@elte.hu>
2007-03-08 10:06 ` hardwired VMI crap Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 11:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 20:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 21:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 21:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-08 21:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-08 23:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 23:55 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-09 0:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-09 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-09 0:22 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-09 0:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-09 0:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-09 0:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 22:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 21:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-08 22:58 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08 18:35 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-07 23:33 ` + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 23:52 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-08 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-08 0:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 20:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 21:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 21:34 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 22:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 22:17 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-07 22:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 22:28 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-08 8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-08 8:15 ` Keir Fraser
2007-03-08 8:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08 10:26 ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-07 21:42 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 22:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 5:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07 0:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 0:42 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 1:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 1:44 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-07 7:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
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