Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

Adrian Bunk
2007-04-03T15:00:44Z

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:26:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > 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.

I don't get this point.

Compared to whatever will be done in the kernel, any change to a
distribution installer should be trivial.

And a new release of a distribution with a new kernel might anyway
usually require some updates to an installer.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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