Re: [RFC] Proposed new directory layout for kvm and virtualization

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 schrieb Avi Kivity:
>   
>> KVM is due to receive support for multiple architectures (ppc, ia64, and 
>> s390, in addition to the existing x86), hopefully in time for the 2.6.25 
>> merge window.  It is awkward to place the new arch support in 
>> drivers/kvm/, so I'd like to propose the following new layout:
>>
>>   virt/         top-level directory for hypervisors
>>   virt/kvm/     kvm common code
>>   virt/lguest/  the other hypervisor
>>   arch/*/kvm/   arch dependent kvm code
>>   include/linux/kvm.h       arch independent interface
>>   include/asm/kvm.h         arch dependent interface
>>   include/linux/kvm_para.h  arch independent guest interface
>>   include/asm/kvm_para.h    arch dependent guest interface
>>
>> The include/ hierarchy is already in place; I'm including it for 
>> completeness.
>>     
>
> For completeness, where do we want to put the drivers?
> drivers/*, drivers/net/* etc. 
> or
> drivers/kvm/* drivers/xen/* etc.
>   

There's already drivers/virtio/ for kvm.  If kvm-specific drivers come 
up, we can place them in drivers/kvm/.

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