Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-19 Thread Ralf Baechle
FYI, Since you intend to resubmit anyway I just dropped the entire series from patchwork. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-16 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:23:51PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > Come to think of it, Emulating SGI hardware might be an interesting > case. There may be old IRIX systems and applications that could be > running low on real hardware. Some of those systems take up a whole > room and draw a lot of p

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-14 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:03:04PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > Subject: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the > MIPS-VZ extensions. > > From: David Daney > > These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS > virtualization via the MI

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-10 Thread David Daney
On 06/10/2013 09:43 AM, Sanjay Lal wrote: On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:03 PM, David Daney wrote: From: David Daney These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions than the patches previously sent by Sanjay Lal. Several facts about the code: o Cur

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-10 Thread Sanjay Lal
On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:03 PM, David Daney wrote: > From: David Daney > > These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS > virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions than the patches previously > sent by Sanjay Lal. > > Several facts about the code: > > > o Currently probably only usab

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-10 Thread Sanjay Lal
On Jun 9, 2013, at 4:23 PM, David Daney wrote: > On 06/09/2013 12:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, David Daney wrote: >>> I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool >>> required to drive this VM as well as a small set of patches that

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:40:42AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > How different MIPS SMP systems are? > > > > o Old SGI heavy metal (several different system architectures). > > > > o Cavium OCTEON SMP SoCs. > > > > o Broadcom (several flavors) SoCs > > > > o Loongson > > o Old DEC h

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-09 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:23:51PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 06/09/2013 12:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > >>I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool > >>required to drive this VM as well as a small set of

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, David Daney wrote: > > How different MIPS SMP systems are? > > o Old SGI heavy metal (several different system architectures). > > o Cavium OCTEON SMP SoCs. > > o Broadcom (several flavors) SoCs > > o Loongson o Old DEC hardware (DECsystem 58x0, R3000-based). o Malta-ba

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-09 Thread David Daney
On 06/09/2013 12:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, David Daney wrote: I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool required to drive this VM as well as a small set of patches that create a para-virtualized MIPS/Linux guest kernel. The id

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-09 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool > required to drive this VM as well as a small set of patches that > create a para-virtualized MIPS/Linux guest kernel. > > The idea is that because there is no standa

[PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-07 Thread David Daney
From: David Daney These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions than the patches previously sent by Sanjay Lal. Several facts about the code: o Existing exception handlers are modified to hook in to KVM instead of intercepting all exception

Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.

2013-06-07 Thread David Daney
I should also add that I will shortly send patches for the kvm tool required to drive this VM as well as a small set of patches that create a para-virtualized MIPS/Linux guest kernel. The idea is that because there is no standard SMP linux system, we create a standard para-virtualized system t