Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:55:19 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: refactor the i915 GVT support |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:45:16PM +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote: > The reason we isolated hypervisor specific code from core vgpu > emulation is to make multiple hypervisor support possible. Yes, we do > have Xen support but never got way into upstream...And we also have > third party hypervisors which leverage gvt function through current > hypervisor interface.
Out of tree stuff simply does not matter for the upstream kernel, especially when it creates such a huge burden.
As a background: I started this refactoring as a lot of the code did not make much sense when reviewing the mdev integration in preparation to switching them to the new mdev interface from Jason.
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