Re: CXL support in QEMU

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/12/2020 17.03, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On 20-12-16 13:42:51, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:53:34 +0100
>> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 16/12/2020 06.05, Prashant V Agarwal wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is there a way to know the support plans for CXL protocol in QEMU?
>>>> I see that there is side branch development going on:
>>>>
>>>> https://gitlab.com/bwidawsk/qemu/-/tree/cxl-2.0v2
>>>> <https://gitlab.com/bwidawsk/qemu/-/tree/cxl-2.0v2>
>>>>
>>>> But when does it get merged and gets released in QEMU formally?
>>>> Is there a way to know a rough timeline?  
>>>
>>> You should rather the authors of that repository whether and when they plan
>>> to contribute their changes to the QEMU project. It's certainly not going to
>>> happen automatically that these patches get merged into the main repository.
>>>
>>>  Thomas
>>>
>> Worth noting that they have posted an RFC, so I would suggest replying to
>> that thread to make sure you get all the right people.
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201111054724.794888-1-ben.widawsky@intel.com/#r
>>
>> +CC Ben
>>
> 
> I haven't posted v2 yet because I have a few more changes I wanted to make
> before doing so, however v2 has all of Jonathan's feedback plus a few minor
> things.
> 
> Thomas, it's been CC'd to a few folks outside of the list itself, but I 
> couldn't
> get much in the way of reviewers. Advice on that is welcome.

Maybe add some more people on CC: who are familiar with x86? See the
MAINTAINERS file and look for "86" in there...

 HTH,
  Thomas