From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@gmail.com>,
Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Retire kvm paravirt
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:59:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716125928.GA12483@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200710063047.154611-2-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:30:16PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> paravirt machine was introduced for Cavium's partial virtualization
> technology, however, it's host side support and QEMU support never
> landed in upstream.
>
> As Cavium was acquired by Marvel and they have no intention to maintain
> their MIPS product line, also paravirt is unlikely to be utilized by
> community users, it's time to retire it if nobody steps in to maintain
> it.
I've fine deleting it. I'll wait a few more days before applying this patch.
So if anybody wants to keep it, speak up now.
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-16 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-10 6:30 [RFC PATCH 0/3] MIPS KVM related clean-ups Jiaxun Yang
2020-07-10 6:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Retire kvm paravirt Jiaxun Yang
2020-07-16 12:59 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2020-07-24 9:11 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-07-10 6:30 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] MIPS: KVM: Limit Trap-and-Emulate to MIPS32R2 only Jiaxun Yang
2020-07-10 6:30 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] MIPS: KVM: Remove outdated README Jiaxun Yang
2020-07-10 7:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] MIPS KVM related clean-ups Paolo Bonzini
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