[PATCH 0/6] virtio with config abstraction and ring implementation

[Rusty Russell <rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>]

Hi all,

	This patch series attempts to come closer to unifying kvm and lguest's
usage of virtio.  As these two are the first implementations we've seen,
I hope making them closer will make future ones closer too.

	Drivers now unpack their own configuration: their probe() methods are
uniform.  The configuration mechanism is extensible and can be backed by
PCI, a string of bytes, or something else.

	I've abstracted out the lguest ring buffer code into a common library.
The format has changed slightly (mainly because I had an epiphany about
inter-guest I/O).

	I also implemented a console (lguest needs one).

	Finally, there is a working lguest implementation.  Unfortunately,
lguest is being refactored for non-i386 ports, so the virtio patches sit
at the end of the (quite long) for-2.6.24 patchqueue.  Nonetheless, they
can be found at http://lguest.ozlabs.org/patches (click on bz2 to get
the series).

Cheers!
Rusty.



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