linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] x86: Add the support of ACRN guest under x86

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:44:57 +0800
From:   "Zhao, Yakui" <yakui.zhao@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, bp@...en8.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] x86: Add the support of ACRN guest under x86



On 2019年04月25日 06:20, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> 
>> ACRN is a flexible, lightweight reference hypervisor, built with real-time
>> and safety-criticality in mind, optimized to streamline embedded development
>> through an open source platform. It is built for embedded IOT with small
>> footprint and real-time features. More details can be found
>> in https://projectacrn.org/
>>
>> This is the patch set that allows the Linux to work on ACRN hypervisor and it can
>> work with the following patch set to manage the Linux guest on ACRN hypervisor. It
>> includes the detection of ACRN hypervisor, upcall notification vector from
>> hypervisor, hypercall. The hypervisor detection is similar to Xen/VMWARE/Hyperv.
>> ACRN also uses the upcall notification mechanism similar to that in Xen/Microsoft
>> HyperV when it needs to send the notification to Linux OS. The hypercall provides
>> the mechanism that can be used to query/configure the ACRN hypervisor by Linux guest.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Thanks for the review.
I will remove the RFC in the next version.

Thanks
    Yakui

>