Hi, in order for installers and hardware discovery programs to be able to load the right device drivers, we really want a virtual device bus in Xen, a'la power5 VIO. This "xen bus" is on the top of Jeremy's TODO list, but since I have heard rumors that some of our friends here might have (some of the) code already it would seem prudent to check whether that code could be reused. Reinventing the wheel shouldn't be needed with GPL code, unless of course rewriting the code ends up being faster than refactoring the already existing code. Besides, we all know the (quality) benefits of deploying and reviewing each other's code ;) If anybody here has virtual bus code that they would like to see reused in Xen, please follow up to this mail so we can get things started soon. kind regards, Rik van Riel -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
