qemu-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: x86: Add support for -machine split-lock-a


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: x86: Add support for -machine split-lock-ac
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:58:23 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0

On 04/07/2018 19:52, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> (Robert, does IceLake have this feature?  If so, we cannot create the
>> CPU model until everything is in place).
> I don't think we need to block the CPU model because QEMU+KVM
> doesn't support some features yet, as long as kernel versions
> capable of running the 3.0 version of IceLake-Server will be also
> capable of running the 3.1 version of IceLake-Server.
> 
> Now, if that condition won't be true and we have some IceLake
> features that will added only to more recent kernels, it might be
> a good idea to hold the inclusion of the CPU model until
> everything is in place.
> 
> 

Yeah, the reason for that is to wait for the kernel side of the
implementation.

Paolo



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]