Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Retire kvm paravirt

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 09:03:13 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:30:16PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> paravirt machine was introduced for Cavium's partial virtualization
> technology, however, it's host side support and QEMU support never
> landed in upstream.
>
> As Cavium was acquired by Marvel and they have no intention to maintain
> their MIPS product line, also paravirt is unlikely to be utilized by
> community users, it's time to retire it if nobody steps in to maintain
> it.

I've fine deleting it. I'll wait a few more days before applying this patch.
So if anybody wants to keep it, speak up now.

Thomas.

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