From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Is: Xen architecture document. Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Is: axe read_tscp pvops call. Was: Re: [RFC] ACPI S3 and Xen (suprisingly small\!). Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:45:33 -0700 Message-ID: <508191BD.4000107@zytor.com> References: <1350481786-4969-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <507ED6C0.4020503@zytor.com> <20121017161036.GA10691@phenom.dumpdata.com> <507EE1C3.7070300@zytor.com> <20121017165452.GA22740@phenom.dumpdata.com> <507EEC53.1010309@zytor.com> <84b3cbf9-7c84-4d7e-a2d7-46b0d1cc5975@default> <50802030.8070107@zytor.com> <50803057.5000307@zytor.com> <20121019154854.GO26830@phenom.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121019154854.GO26830@phenom.dumpdata.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Dan Magenheimer , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 10/19/2012 08:48 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> paravirtualized architectures out there which are perfectly well >> documented and supportable, but Xen has resisted doing that for >> years, and all we ever get are vague future promises. > > There is no resistance - and it is being done. Every month we document > various APIs, man-pages, etc so that knowledge won't be lost. The > end-result of that is to create a PDF similar to the PowerPC architecture > document. > > I have not been pointing you to it, b/c as of right what we have is > raw data (various header files growing in size) that keep on growing. > I need to hire/cajole an editor to help us get from the "raw" brain > dump to a book and some sense of milestones/schedule or whatever one > does in the book-world. > > And Peter, just in case it is not clear, every suggestion you make is > appreciated and taken seriously. If there are things that have been > dropped or forgotten by me - please remind me. > Right... so for those who don't know, this is something I have discussed with Konrad over the course of the last several years. It is good to know progress is happening. It is late, of course -- this should have happened before Xen was integrated -- but we can't change the past. -hpa