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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: add /proc/tile, /proc/sys/tile, and a sysfs cpu attribute
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:38:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105241738.52146.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105191722.17685.arnd@arndb.de>

On Thursday 19 May 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > # cat /proc/tile/board
> > board_part: 402-00002-05
> > board_serial: NBS-5002-00012
> > chip_serial: P62338.01.110
> > chip_revision: A0
> > board_revision: 2.2
> > board_description: Tilera TILExpressPro-64, TILEPro64 processor (866 MHz-capable), 1 10GbE, 6 1GbE
> > # cat /proc/tile/switch
> > control: mdio gbe/0
> 
> I think it's ok to have it below /sys/hypervisor, because the information
> is provided through a hypervisor ABI, even though it describes something
> else. This is more like /sys/firmware, but the boundaries between that
> and /sys/hypervisor are not clearly defined when running virtualized anyway.

A minor point that I meant to bring up but had not gotten to:

When you do a /sys/hypervisor/ interface, put everything into a subdirectory
under /sys/hypervisor with the name of your hypervisor, to avoid naming
conflicts, e.g.

/sys/hypervisor/tilera-hv/board/board_serial

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20  5:43 [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux Chris Metcalf
2010-05-20  8:04 ` Barry Song
2010-05-20 14:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-20 19:10   ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-21  4:52     ` Barry Song
2010-05-21 15:13       ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-20 19:12   ` [PATCH] generic: make lowmem_page_address() use PFN_PHYS() for improved portability Chris Metcalf
2010-05-22  4:05 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux Chris Metcalf
2010-05-23 22:08   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-24 15:29     ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-24 18:53       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-24 21:29         ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-25 13:54         ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-25 15:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-25 15:13             ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-25 15:30               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-26  2:44             ` liqin.chen
2010-05-26 13:45               ` Chris Metcalf
     [not found]           ` <4BFBE005.2070500@tilera.com>
     [not found]             ` <201005251721.23782.arnd@arndb.de>
2010-05-26 23:05               ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-26  5:02       ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-25 21:45     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-27  0:58       ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27  8:41         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-27 13:30           ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27 13:41             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-05-27 13:48               ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-27 14:11             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-27 14:35               ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27 15:02                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-27 15:04                   ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27 15:20                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-27 14:52               ` Marc Gauthier
2010-05-28 17:58                 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27 15:03               ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-27 20:34           ` Jamie Lokier
2010-05-27 20:53             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-28 16:45       ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-28 17:16         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-28 17:28           ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-16 18:23       ` [PATCH] arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook Chris Metcalf
2011-05-18 18:14         ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-17 20:26       ` [PATCH] arch/tile: add /proc/tile, /proc/sys/tile, and a sysfs cpu attribute Chris Metcalf
2011-05-19 13:41         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-19 15:12           ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-19 15:22             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-20 14:26               ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-20 14:37                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-20 15:00                   ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-20 15:13                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-20 19:59                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-25 19:18                         ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-25 20:20                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-25 20:31                             ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-25 20:34                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 15:38               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-05-26 16:40         ` [PATCH v2] arch/tile: more /proc and /sys file support Chris Metcalf
2011-05-27 14:23           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-24 20:22 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux Sam Ravnborg
2010-05-24 21:30   ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-25  5:02     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-05-25 20:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-26  1:57   ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-26 16:22   ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-26 17:09     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-29  3:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] Fix up the "generic" unistd.h ABI to be more useful Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:09 ` [PATCH 2/8] arch/tile: infrastructure and configuration-related files Chris Metcalf
2010-05-31  7:47   ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-03 17:54     ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] arch/tile: header files for the Tile architecture Chris Metcalf
2010-05-31  2:58   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-03 21:32   ` [PATCH] arch/tile: respond to reviews of the second code submission Chris Metcalf
2010-06-04  0:50     ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-04  1:31     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-07  5:25       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-29  3:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] arch/tile: core kernel/ code Chris Metcalf
2010-05-31  2:58   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-29  3:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] arch/tile: the kernel/tile-desc_32.c file Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:13 ` [PATCH 6/8] arch/tile: the mm/ directory Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:16 ` [PATCH 7/8] arch/tile: lib/ directory Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:17 ` [PATCH 8/8] arch/tile: hypervisor console driver Chris Metcalf
     [not found] ` <dVZMmBu$KHA.5388@exchange1.tad.internal.tilera.com>
2010-05-29  3:20   ` [PATCH 0/8] revised patch for arch/tile/ support Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29  3:20 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-05-29 11:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-03 20:40     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-03 21:48       ` Chris Metcalf
2010-06-04 21:32       ` Chris Metcalf
2010-06-05 12:56         ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-06-05 13:30           ` Chris Metcalf
2010-06-05 14:10             ` Stephen Rothwell

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