Re: [PATCH -v2] Add MCE support to KVM

From: Anthony Liguori
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 16:08:54 EST


Avi Kivity wrote:
No argument. But some kernel features will require major rework in qemu before we can support them properly. We'll still want to bring them to users quickly so users can enjoy them (and we can enjoy users testing them). Waiting for a qemu rework may take a while, and we'll lose valuable feedback.

Then we're failing. If a particular implementation of a feature is acceptable for kvm-userspace users, and we don't take it in QEMU without requiring a huge amount of different work, then it suggests something is broken about the QEMU process.

For this kind of work, we can provide kvm-userspace.git as a kind of playground where these experiments may be made. kvm-userspace.git exists to support kvm.git; while qemu.git has a life of its own and more stringent barriers to acceptance.

As long as people are using kvm-userspace.git instead of qemu.git, we're failing IMHO. If kvm-userspace.git is basically the equivalent of the x86 git kernel tree, linux-next, or something like that, then that's a good thing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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