Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753258AbbF2RLZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:11:25 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:38879 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753177AbbF2RLS (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:11:18 -0400 Message-ID: <55917C31.4060107@arm.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:11:13 +0100 From: Marc Zyngier Organization: ARM Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" CC: "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Andre Przywara , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rrichter@cavium.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Christoffer Dall , Suzuki Poulose Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable minimalistic support for Thunder References: <1435348284-32132-1-git-send-email-tchalamarla@caviumnetworks.com> <55910794.6000107@arm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1210 Lines: 38 On 29/06/15 18:06, Chalamarla, Tirumalesh wrote: > >> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Marc Zyngier 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 >> >> 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... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/