On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I still think it's preferable to change some drivers than everybody. > > > > AFAIK BusLogic as real hardware is pretty much dead anyways, > > so you're probably the only primary user of it anyways. > > Go wild on it! > > I don't believe anyone is materially maintaining the buslogic driver and > in time its going to break completely. > > > Well that might be. I just think it would be a mistake > > to design paravirt_ops based on someone's short term release engineering > > considerations. > > Agreed, especially as an interface where each in or out traps into the > hypervisor is broken even for the model of virtualising hardware.
I'd really like lguest guests not to do ins and outs, but that's likely to be more invasive a change than this. We do it to find the PCI bus IIRC, and a couple of other early probe bits. It's just unfortunate that it's the one place lguest has to emulate because of lack of paravirt_ops coverage. Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
