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Message-ID: <20200724091123.GB14059@alpha.franken.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:11:23 +0200
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>,
Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Retire kvm paravirt
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:30:16PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> paravirt machine was introduced for Cavium's partial virtualization
> technology, however, it's host side support and QEMU support never
> landed in upstream.
>
> As Cavium was acquired by Marvel and they have no intention to maintain
> their MIPS product line, also paravirt is unlikely to be utilized by
> community users, it's time to retire it if nobody steps in to maintain
> it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/Kbuild.platforms | 1 -
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 19 --
> arch/mips/configs/mips_paravirt_defconfig | 98 ------
> arch/mips/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 115 -------
> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 2 +
> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 -
> arch/mips/paravirt/Kconfig | 7 -
> arch/mips/paravirt/Makefile | 14 -
> arch/mips/paravirt/Platform | 7 -
> arch/mips/paravirt/paravirt-irq.c | 368 ----------------------
> arch/mips/paravirt/paravirt-smp.c | 145 ---------
> arch/mips/paravirt/serial.c | 39 ---
> arch/mips/paravirt/setup.c | 67 ----
> arch/mips/pci/Makefile | 1 -
> arch/mips/pci/pci-virtio-guest.c | 131 --------
> 16 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1017 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/configs/mips_paravirt_defconfig
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/Kconfig
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/Platform
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/paravirt-irq.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/paravirt-smp.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/serial.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/paravirt/setup.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/pci/pci-virtio-guest.c
applied to mips-next.
Thomas.
--
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