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

Christian Borntraeger
2007-12-11T13:39:31Z

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.

Christian?