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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis-yUx37fBWTUITNcAmw9vGhQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: portability layer?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:20:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174944048.29357.11.camel@basalt> (raw)

Hi Avi, I was wondering what you think is the right abstraction layer to
target for porting KVM to non-x86 architectures? To me it looks like
libkvm is the answer.

The kernel/userland interface is heavily x86-specific, including things
like struct kvm_run. So it looks like the higher-level API of
kvm_init(), kvm_create(), etc would be the right cut? struct
kvm_callbacks is even reasonably portable, especially if cpuid is hidden
behind an "arch" callback.

-Hollis


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             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 21:20 Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2007-03-27  6:57 ` portability layer? Avi Kivity
     [not found]   ` <4608C06C.2000708-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-28 14:26     ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-03-28 15:06       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-28 15:48       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]         ` <460A8E44.5080305-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-28 18:50           ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-03-29  7:11             ` Avi Kivity

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