[RFC PATCH 17/17] KVM: PPC: Add an ioctl for userspace to select which platform to emulate
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Sun Jul 3 19:12:16 EST 2011
On 07/03/2011 12:09 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >
> > Right. The idea is that if KVM_FLAG_BLAH implies a field kvm_struct::blah, then either both are present in the headers, or none of them.
>
> Yup, makes sense. I like the idea :). Gets rid of all the useless paddings and reserved fields. We could even truncate the structs that already have paddings in them if we only copy min(sizeof(real_struct), ioctl_passed_size); (which we should anyways).
>
No, we can't change anything that is already out. If will change the
ioctl numbers, so building against new headers but running against an
old kernel will fail.
> How long until we get a patch set? :)
Well, I'd really like to get the qemu memory API out first.
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