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

[Alexander Graf]

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.

With ben's tree merged into avi's tree and your patches applied on top, MOL breaks. I'll have to track down why exactly though.


Alex