Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

Rusty Russell
2007-04-06T01:16:01Z

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:36 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> prototyping new kernel APIs to implement user-space network drivers, on
> a crufty codebase is not something that should be done lightly.

I think you overestimate my radicalism. I was considering readv() and
writev() on the tap device.

Qemu's infrastructure may hurt kvm here, but lguest won't be able to use
that excuse.

> track issue for the *PIC question at
> hand. PICs are not network devices, they are essential platform
> components and almost an extended part of the CPU.)

Definitely, I'm only interested in stealing^H^H^Hsharing KVM devices.
The subject is now deeply misleading 8(

Cheers,
Rusty.