Re: [PATCH] spapr: Add "memop" hypercall

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On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:55 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> > As to adding things to PAPR, let's assume for now that this isn't
> > possible :-) Besides, those two hypercalls are pretty specific to
> the
> > way things are implemented in qemu and are in both case more or less
> > private mechanisms used to communicate between qemu and the SLOF
> > firmware we run in inside qemu, they aren't really used by random
> guest
> > SW and aren't meant to be.
> 
> Okay.  But let's have a spec, even a kvm-private one, and then an
> implementation of that spec, instead of an implementation and some
> documentation added as an afterthought (or not).
> 
> > It's a bit like if you had private calls between seabios and qemu...
> 
> We document those too.

BTW. This is a qemu patch, and that hypercall isn't KVM related at all,
ie, it's implemented in qemu and is used with or without KVM, so
documenting it in the kernel tree makes little sense. Same goes with
H_RTAS.

I'll add a doc to qemu in my next spin of it.

Cheers,
Ben.


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