[PATCH v1 3/6] soc: mediatek: virt: geniezone: Introduce GenieZone hypervisor support

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 10:08:41 PDT 2023



On 13/04/2023 14:55, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13/04/2023 11:07, Yi-De Wu wrote:
>> From: "Yingshiuan Pan" <yingshiuan.pan at mediatek.com>
>>
>> GenieZone is MediaTek proprietary hypervisor solution, and it is running
>> in EL2 stand alone as a type-I hypervisor. This patch exports a set of
>> ioctl interfaces for userspace VMM (e.g., crosvm) to operate guest VMs
>> lifecycle (creation, running, and destroy) on GenieZone.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yingshiuan Pan <yingshiuan.pan at mediatek.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yi-De Wu <yi-de.wu at mediatek.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/gzvm_arch.h       |  79 ++++
>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig                  |   2 +
>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/Makefile                 |   1 +
>>   drivers/soc/mediatek/virt/geniezone/Kconfig   |  17 +
> 
> Hypervisor drivers do not go to soc. Stop shoving there everything from
> your downstream. Find appropriate directory, e.g. maybe drivers/virt.

Acked, what is the reason you want to add this to drivers/soc instead of 
drivers/virt?

Regards,
Matthias

> See:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230304010632.2127470-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
> 
> You should follow that discussion as well and be sure that all concerns
> raised for Gunyah are solved also here.
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 



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