virtualization-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/24/2005 02:01:31 PM: > 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. I would hate to see a xen virtual bus...I would love to see the power5 VIO bus move out of arch/ppc64 and into somewhere generic. I'm pretty UML ignorant...but is there any overlap with the way UML does devices? Dave Boutcher IBM Linux Technology Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/virtualization/attachments/20050124/6602ef92/attachment.htm
