Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM [LWN.net]

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 21, 2021 15:11 UTC (Fri) by mss (subscriber, #138799)
In reply to: Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM by khim
Parent article: Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

> Why would that be a problem? AMD and Intel use totally different schemes and they both are supported.

It's a waste of effort to implement what's effectively the same thing two different ways.
And these aren't trivial things.

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Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 23, 2021 7:38 UTC (Sun) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link] (1 responses)

It's not a waste of effort for the people who are stuck with one implementation or the other: in short, the users of linux. Particularly when that implementation is baked into asic hardware.

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 23, 2021 11:57 UTC (Sun) by mss (subscriber, #138799) [Link]

My comment was more about not having two different hardware schemes in the first place (like VMX and SVM for x86).