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

[Alexander Graf]

On 21.05.2011, at 18:41, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> 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.

In fact, qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm also breaks.


Alex