[Qemu-devel] Re: GSOC 2011 (KVM for MIPS)

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-02-20 14:08, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:32:31PM -0500, yajin wrote:
>> Hi all,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I have proposed an idea of GSOC 2011 about adding KVM support to MIPS
>> architecture. I have solid experience on MIPS architecture and
>> familiar with qemu. I am very interested in this project.
> 
> Having KVM support for MIPS would be really great. AFAIK there is not
> hardware virtualization support on MIPS (except if you plan to use the
> supervisor mode for that), so how do you plan to proceed here? Executing
> everything in user mode and emulating the trapped instructions? MIPS is
> using a split address space depending on the mode, so that may not be
> that easy.
> 
> All of that to say it would be nice to have a more detailed description
> about such a GSOC, describing the your exact plans with a rough 
> timeline. This is especially true, given that adding support for a new
> architecture in KVM seems to be a huge task for a GSOC.

MontaVista has KVM for MIPS on their product slides [1]. Maybe someone
has a good contact to them and can poke for more details. They probably
won't offer it for direct download but need to distribute it to their
customers as open source anyway.

Jan

[1] http://www.mvista.com/product_detail_cge.php

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