From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:00:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20070403150042.GK14134@stusta.de> References: <4611652F.700@zytor.com> <200704031030.36473.ak@suse.de> <20070403111731.52f2102a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <200704031126.52750.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200704031126.52750.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Cornelia Huck , Christian Borntraeger , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "H. Peter Anvin" , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mathiasen@gmail.com List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed