From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38009C433E6 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213572074B for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728639AbgGPNDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:03:11 -0400 Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]:38446 "EHLO elvis.franken.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728093AbgGPNDK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:03:10 -0400 Received: from uucp (helo=alpha) by elvis.franken.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1jw3XT-0001Iu-00; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:03:03 +0200 Received: by alpha.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42D36C0813; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:59:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:59:28 +0200 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Jiaxun Yang Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , Paul Walmsley , Masahiro Yamada , Waiman Long , Andrew Morton , Alexander Lobakin , Jason Wang , Paolo Bonzini , Huacai Chen , Aleksandar Markovic , Paul Burton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Retire kvm paravirt Message-ID: <20200716125928.GA12483@alpha.franken.de> References: <20200710063047.154611-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> <20200710063047.154611-2-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200710063047.154611-2-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ]