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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [qemu PATCH v4 3/4] nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 16:40:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gwsasnnt=LpU5wgbjvL8=w+fErCPtNHyRDGO1iQukYnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AT5PR8401MB1169403448C8AA5FF267F6A6AB650@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
<elliott@hpe.com> wrote:
>
>> > Okay, we can move to the symbolic names.  Do you want them to be that
>> long, or
>> > would:
>> >
>> > nvdimm-cap-cpu
>> > nvdimm-cap-mem-ctrl
>> > nvdimm-cap-mirroring
>>
>> Wait, why is mirroring part of this?
>
> This data structure is intended to report any kind of platform capability, not
> just platform persistence capabilities.

Yes, but here's nothing actionable that a qemu guest OS can do with
that mirroring information, so there's no need at this time to add cli
cruft and code to support it.
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH v4 3/4] nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 16:40:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gwsasnnt=LpU5wgbjvL8=w+fErCPtNHyRDGO1iQukYnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AT5PR8401MB1169403448C8AA5FF267F6A6AB650@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
<elliott@hpe.com> wrote:
>
>> > Okay, we can move to the symbolic names.  Do you want them to be that
>> long, or
>> > would:
>> >
>> > nvdimm-cap-cpu
>> > nvdimm-cap-mem-ctrl
>> > nvdimm-cap-mirroring
>>
>> Wait, why is mirroring part of this?
>
> This data structure is intended to report any kind of platform capability, not
> just platform persistence capabilities.

Yes, but here's nothing actionable that a qemu guest OS can do with
that mirroring information, so there's no need at this time to add cli
cruft and code to support it.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-06 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-21 16:31 [qemu PATCH v4 0/4] support NFIT platform capabilities Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32 ` [qemu PATCH v4 1/4] nvdimm: fix typo in label-size definition Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32 ` [qemu PATCH v4 2/4] tests/.gitignore: add entry for generated file Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:41   ` Eric Blake
2018-05-21 16:41     ` Eric Blake
2018-05-21 17:32     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-05-21 17:32       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-05-21 18:29       ` Eric Blake
2018-05-21 18:29         ` Eric Blake
2018-05-21 16:32 ` [qemu PATCH v4 3/4] nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-05 15:25   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-05 15:25     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-05 16:42     ` Ross Zwisler
2018-06-05 16:42       ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-05 18:15       ` Dan Williams
2018-06-05 18:15         ` [Qemu-devel] " Dan Williams
2018-06-05 18:37         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-05 18:37           ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-05 22:07           ` Ross Zwisler
2018-06-05 22:07             ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-05 22:21             ` Dan Williams
2018-06-05 22:21               ` [Qemu-devel] " Dan Williams
2018-06-06 16:50               ` Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 16:50                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 17:00                 ` Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 17:00                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 17:08                   ` Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 17:08                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-06 19:06                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-06 19:06                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-12 11:55                       ` Igor Mammedov
2018-06-12 11:55                         ` Igor Mammedov
2018-06-06 19:04                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-06 19:04                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-06 19:07                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-06 19:07                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-06 23:20               ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-06-06 23:20                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-06-06 23:40                 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-06-06 23:40                   ` Dan Williams
2018-06-07 15:29                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-07 15:29                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-07 15:30                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-07 15:30                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-21 16:32 ` [qemu PATCH v4 4/4] ACPI testing: test " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-21 16:32   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-25 17:51 ` [qemu PATCH v4 0/4] support " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-25 17:51   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-31 22:03   ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-31 22:03     ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-05-29 19:54 ` Ross Zwisler
2018-05-29 19:54   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Zwisler
2018-06-01  5:11   ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-06-01  5:11     ` [Qemu-devel] " Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)

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