From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takuya Yoshikawa Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: ia64: define kvm_lapic_enabled() to fix a compile error Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:31:27 +0900 Message-ID: <4CA0727F.1040507@oss.ntt.co.jp> References: <20100902175500.ac552016.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> <4C7F6707.7030004@redhat.com> <4CA03EED.9080404@oss.ntt.co.jp> <4CA068C7.3020004@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , "mtosatti@redhat.com" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org" To: "Zhang, Xiantao" Return-path: Received: from serv2.oss.ntt.co.jp ([222.151.198.100]:56368 "EHLO serv2.oss.ntt.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905Ab0I0K35 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:29:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Isn't this a candidate for 2.6.36? >>> >>> Though ia64 kvm is in experimental stage and may not be working now, >>> compile errors may be bad for other people who just want to compile >>> ia64 linux. >>> >> >> Maybe we should make ia64 kvm depend on CONFIG_BROKEN. >> >> It has been "experimental" for quite a while. > > I don't think the kvm/ia64 is broken in the upstream Linux, and it should work according to our last try. The big issue is about userspace support. Latest qemu maybe not work with latest kernel, but if you choose an old qemu, it should work! > Xiantao > But without my patch, I failed to (cross-)compile kvm/ia64. So for a few months, kvm/ia64 was broken in that sense, I guess. I hope we would have more chance to know in which version kvm/ia64 works! From my side, I'm sometimes worried whether my patches made something bad for kvm/ia64, hopefully not of course. Thanks, Takuya From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takuya Yoshikawa Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:31:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: ia64: define kvm_lapic_enabled() to fix a compile Message-Id: <4CA0727F.1040507@oss.ntt.co.jp> List-Id: References: <20100902175500.ac552016.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20100902175500.ac552016.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>> Hi, >>> >>> Isn't this a candidate for 2.6.36? >>> >>> Though ia64 kvm is in experimental stage and may not be working now, >>> compile errors may be bad for other people who just want to compile >>> ia64 linux. >>> >> >> Maybe we should make ia64 kvm depend on CONFIG_BROKEN. >> >> It has been "experimental" for quite a while. > > I don't think the kvm/ia64 is broken in the upstream Linux, and it should work according to our last try. The big issue is about userspace support. Latest qemu maybe not work with latest kernel, but if you choose an old qemu, it should work! > Xiantao > But without my patch, I failed to (cross-)compile kvm/ia64. So for a few months, kvm/ia64 was broken in that sense, I guess. I hope we would have more chance to know in which version kvm/ia64 works! From my side, I'm sometimes worried whether my patches made something bad for kvm/ia64, hopefully not of course. Thanks, Takuya