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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2 |
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Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:31:13 -0500 |
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Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2012-08-13 15:58, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/13/2012 04:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for pushing this forward! Hopefully this will finally kill off
>>> qemu-kvm.git for good.
>>
>> No, it won't. vfio requires a 3.6 kernel, which we cannot assume anyone
>> has. We'll need the original device assignment code side-by-side.
>
> ...which is on my to-do list for 1.3.
Is there a deprecation plan for the old device assignment code?
I'm not really against the idea of requiring a new kernel for new
features.
>From a Fedora/OpenSUSE point of view, would supporting old kernels be a
requirement to stop shipping qemu-kvm.git over qemu.git?
Since distros ship new kernels and new userspaces, I don't think distros
would care so I'm not sure who we're trying to support old kernels for.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Jan
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] vfio: vfio-pci device assignment driver, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] vfio: vfio-pci device assignment driver, Alex Williamson, 2012/08/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Anthony Liguori, 2012/08/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Avi Kivity, 2012/08/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2,
Anthony Liguori <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Avi Kivity, 2012/08/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Cole Robinson, 2012/08/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Cole Robinson, 2012/08/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2, Alex Williamson, 2012/08/13