On 2011-02-21 02:09, yajin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Hi Jan, > > Thanks very much for your information. I am not sure how they > distribute their source code. Anyone knows about that? > > Jan, would you like to be one of the mentors of this project? Your > experience of KVM would be very helpful. Thanks Your project is really interesting. But given that my bandwidth is limited and I've already a different project proposal filed, I can't commit myself to this yet. I may serve as a backup mentor, but no promises at this point. Jan
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