[PATCH 0/13] Hypervisor-mode KVM on POWER7
Alexander Graf
agraf at suse.de
Thu May 19 16:01:33 EST 2011
On 19.05.2011, at 07:22, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:42:08PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 05/17/2011 02:38 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, both options are fine. If it goes through kvm.git I can merge
>> Ben's tree (provided it is append-only) and apply the kvm-ppc
>> patches on top.
>
> OK, the easiest thing is for them to go via Ben's tree, I think, since
> they depend so much on other stuff in Ben's tree.
>
> Alex, could you give Ben an acked-by for patches 1-8 of the series?
> There haven't been any changes requested for them.
Let me give them a spin on a G5, so I can at least verify nothing breaks ;). I'll hopefully get to this before next week.
Alex
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