[Qemu-devel] KVM developer call minutes (Feb 2)

[Chris Wright]

Minutes (please reply w/ corrections or follow-ups):

state of in-kernel APIC/IOAPIC/PIT upstream merge
- Glauber?...

road map to get rid of qemu-kvm's slot management (IMHO: qemu-kvm-0.13)
- no real feedback here

- any further ongoing/planned upstream merge efforts?
  - SMP
    - needs in-kernel irqchip support upstream
    - possibly make it a stream in uq for integration and autotesting
  - PCI Device Assignment cleanup, proper capabilities support
    - do we move to uio support before pushing upstream?
    - Michael's UIO patch for 2.3 devices is upstream, so moving to uio
      would add a feature
    - what is missing w/out PCIe bus emulation
      - AER, ARI, few other less critical things
    - any 64-bit issues or other things that a driver may probe for that
      will break ww/out PCIe
      - most are probing PCI capabilities

upstream queue uq qemu-kvm 
- flush mmio buffer periodically
- enabled unconditional save/restore
- started porting -mempath
- getting autotest to run on upstream to autotest before sending patches
  to upstream
- anthony wants to receive pull request w/ inline patches for review

qmp feature negotiation issue
- Luiz and Markus discussing alternatives, either seems fine
  - Anthony will follow-up on list