This documentation is a high level overview to explain the basics of Linux running as a guest on Hyper-V. The intent is to document the forest, not the trees. The Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec provides conceptual material and API details for the core Hyper-V hypervisor, and this documentation provides additional info on how that functionality is applied to Linux. Also, there's no public documentation on VMbus or the VMbus synthetic devices, so this documentation helps fill that gap at a conceptual level. This documentation is not API-level documentation, which can be seen in the code and associated comments. More topics will be added in future patches, including: * Miscellaneous synthetic devices like KVP, timesync, VSS, etc. * Virtual PCI support * Isolated/Confidential VMs * UIO driver If you think I'm missing a topic that fits into the overall approach as described, feel free to suggest text, or let me know and I can add it to my list. Changes in v2: * Updated clocks.rst to use section hierarchy that matches overview.rst and vmbus.rst [Wei Liu] Michael Kelley (3): Documentation: hyperv: Add overview of Hyper-V enlightenments Documentation: hyperv: Add overview of VMbus Documentation: hyperv: Add overview of clocks and timers Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst | 73 ++++++++ Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst | 12 ++ Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst | 303 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/virt/index.rst | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 1 + 6 files changed, 597 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst -- 1.8.3.1
