Re: [PATCH 00/19] pci-assign: Refactor for upstream merge

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On 2012-08-16 16:34, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 04:54 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> With this series, we are getting very close to obsoleting qemu-kvm. It
>> refactors hw/device-assignment.c and the associated KVM helper functions
>> into a form that should allow merging them into QEMU. Once the series is
>> acceptable for qemu-kvm, I will break out the necessary uq/master
>> patches and push pci-assign to upstream.
>>
>> The major step of this series is to define a regular set of kvm_device_*
>> services that encapsulate classic (i.e. KVM-based, non-VFIO) device
>> assignment features and export them to i386 targets only. There will
>> never be another arch using them, therefore I pushed them into this
>> corner. Moreover, the device assignment device now makes use of the new
>> KVM IRQ/MSI routing API and no longer pokes into the internals of that
>> layer. Finally, I moved the code into hw/kvm/pci-assign.c, dropped the
>> superfluous configure option and did some basic code cleanups (mostly
>> coding style) to bring things in shape.
>>
>> Note that patch 1 is a simple bug fix that should likely be applied for
>> qemu-kvm-1.2 independently.
>>
>> This series depends on [1] and [2] and QEMU upstream (2b97f88c92) being
>> merged into qemu-kvm.
>>
>> Please review.
> 
>>From a quick review it looks ready to merge.  Of course I'd appreciate a
> review from Alex or Michael as well.

Great, thanks.

FWIW, as the upstream integration is technically trivial now, I pushed a
preview to

git://git.kiszka.org/qemu-kvm.git queues/kvm-upstream

Will send out once reviews for this series are done.

Jan

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