[PATCH 0/13] Hypervisor-mode KVM on POWER7

[Alexander Graf]

Am 17.05.2011 um 13:15 schrieb Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:46:34AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
>> Very nice patches indeed :). Is there any way I can test them? I
>> don't like pulling code that I couldn't run anywhere yet.
> 
> I can understand that, but unfortunately there are no machines
> available outside of IBM at this stage that can run this stuff.
> 
> Do you think that the earlier patches in the series could go in for
> 2.6.40?  Patches 1 to 8 don't require hypervisor mode and can be
> tested on a G5 or whatever.

Oh, I can and will certainly test if the code breaks pr mode, but that doesn't mean it will do the right thing on HV machines :o.

> 
> What would be the path for these patches to get upstream?  Would this
> stuff normally go through Avi's tree?  There is a bit of a
> complication in that they are based on Ben's next branch.  Would Avi
> pull Ben's next branch, or would they go in via Ben's tree?

Usually the ppc tree gets merged into Avi's tree and goes on from there. When we have interdependencies, we can certainly do it differently though. We can also shove them through Ben's tree this time around, as there are more dependencies on ppc code than KVM code.

> 
> Thanks,
> Paul.