Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add new headers for Hyper-V Dom0

Wei Liu
2024-10-07T16:27:00Z

On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Nuno Das Neves wrote:
> To support Hyper-V Dom0 (aka Linux as root partition), many new
> definitions are required.
>
> The plan going forward is to directly import headers from
> Hyper-V. This is a more maintainable way to import definitions
> rather than via the TLFS doc. This patch series introduces
> new headers (hvhdk.h, hvgdk.h, etc, see patch #3) directly
> derived from Hyper-V code.
>
> This patch series replaces hyperv-tlfs.h with hvhdk.h, but only
> in Microsoft-maintained Hyper-V code where they are needed. This
> leaves the existing hyperv-tlfs.h in use elsewhere - notably for
> Hyper-V enlightenments on KVM guests.

It goes without saying that we need to make sure KVM still builds
correctly after this series. Please make sure to test that. Thanks.

Wei.