Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations

Rusty Russell
2006-11-01T23:32:57Z

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 21:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need
> > to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of
> > defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT.
> this is a lot of infrastructure... do we have more than 1 user of this
> yet that wants to get merged in mainline?

Yep. Xen and VMI both have patches on top of this pending merge. I
also have a toy hypervisor "lhype" based on this, but it's not ready for
mainline. (It seems people expect consoles to do *input* as well as
output).

Cheers,
Rusty.