From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964813AbXDCJ07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 05:26:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965028AbXDCJ07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 05:26:59 -0400 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37919 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964989AbXDCJ06 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 05:26:58 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Cornelia Huck Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:26:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Christian Borntraeger , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "H. Peter Anvin" , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mathiasen@gmail.com References: <4611652F.700@zytor.com> <200704031030.36473.ak@suse.de> <20070403111731.52f2102a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20070403111731.52f2102a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704031126.52750.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > On s390, it would be more than strangeness. There's no implementation > of PCI at all, someone would have to cook it up - and it wouldn't have > any use beyond those special devices. Since there isn't any bus type > that is available on *all* architectures, a generic "virtual" bus with > very simple probing seems much saner... You just have to change all the distribution installers then. Ok I suppose on s390 that's not that big issue because there are not that many for s390. But for x86 there exist quite a lot. I suppose it's easier to change it in the kernel. -Andi