> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:holl...@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:00 AM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> Cc: Rahul Kulkarni; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: PowerPC KVM build directions
> 
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:52 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> > 
> > > Since KVM supports a NetBSD 4.0  guest (I 
> > > think) and 8544/e500 emulation is already present in qemu -- 
> > > theoretically the first part should work...but I recall Liu 
> > > mentioning that there might be some OS specific quirks 
> > > present in the port...and that was what I my question was 
> > > hinting at earlier.. 
> > 
> > There must be a lot of differences between Linux and NetBSD.
> > So the design of kvmppc may not be careful considerate.
> > 
> > The main trick is to hijack the system interrupts.
> > You should check if this part of code cater to NetBSD.
> > Context switch needs to be taken care as well.
> > 
> > At least there is one thing I can point out.
> > See comments in the file booke_interrupts.S  line 195. :-)
> 
> Liu, you're talking about BSD as the *host*. Rahul is asking about BSD
> as the guest.
> 

Sorry, I stand corrected. :-/
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