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Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable minimalistic support for Thunder

From "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla@caviumnetworks.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable minimalistic support for Thunder
Date 2015-07-16 19:50 +0200
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the discussion on the generic cpu seems to be stuck, is there a possibility to take this patch. so that Thunder has a chance to run some KVM.

Thanks,
Tirumalesh.  
> On Jun 29, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29/06/15 18:06, Chalamarla, Tirumalesh wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 26/06/15 20:51, Tirumalesh Chalamarla wrote:
>>>> In order to allow KVM to run on Thunder implementations, add the
>>>> minimal support required.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@caviumnetworks.com>
>>> 
>>> CCing the KVM/ARM maintainers should be the first course of action.
>>> 
>> thanks. 
>> 
>>> Also, you may want to try Suzuki's patch instead:
>>> 
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg117703.html
>>> 
>> will try with this.
>> 
>>> Constantly adding new CPUs without providing any insight as to how they
>>> should be emulated only brings churn, and not much benefit.
>>> 
>> we are not planning(at this point) to emulate Thunder with QEMU/others.   
> 
> Fair enough. If cross-cpu VM migration is none of your concern, then
> Suzuki's patch should be enough.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	M.
> -- 
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable minimalistic support for Thunder "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-07-16 19:50 +0200

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