Planning the merge of KVM/arm64

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:57:32PM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On 4 June 2013 09:37, Gleb Natapov <gleb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 05:51:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Il 04/06/2013 17:43, Christoffer Dall ha scritto:
> >> > Hi Paolo,
> >> >
> >> > I don't think this is an issue. Gleb and Marcelo for example pulled
> >> > RMK's stable tree for my KVM/ARM updates for the 3.10 merge window and
> >> > that wasn't an issue.  If Linus pulls the kvm/next tree first the
> >> > diffstat should be similar and everything clean enough, no?
> >> >
> >> > Catalin has previously expressed his wish to upstream the kvm/arm64
> >> > patches directly through him given the churn in a completely new
> >> > architecture and he wants to make sure that everything looks right.
> >> >
> >> > It's a pretty clean implementation with quite few dependencies and
> >> > merging as a working series should be a priority instead of the
> >> > Kconfig hack, imho.
> >>
> >> Ok, let's see what Gleb says.
> >>
> > I have no objection to merge arm64 kvm trough Catalin if it mean less
> > churn for everyone. That's what we did with arm and mips. Arm64 kvm
> > has a dependency on kvm.git next though, so how Catalin make sure that
> > everything looks right? Will he merge kvm.git/next to arm64 tree?
> >
> Yes, that was the idea. Everything in kvm/next is considered stable, right?
> 
Right. Catalin should wait for kvm.git to be pulled by Linus next merge
windows before sending his pull request then.

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			Gleb.