Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/24/2005 05:42:23 PM: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:31 -0600, David Boutcher wrote: > > virtualization-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/24/2005 02:01:31 PM: > > > 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. > > Well, "xen virtual bus" meaning here "a virtual bus being used by xen". > VIO isn't insane to think about (in fact, I've looked quite a bit at it > since I'm familiar with the power5 stuff :), but as it stands right now, > the VIO stuff is fairly ugly (imho) since the entire file is basically > #ifdef PSERIES > ... > #endif > #ifdef ISERIES > ... > #endif > > And if we're just going to end up adding another #ifdef SOMETHING_ELSE, > then why try to pretend they're the same thing? I guess I'm envisioning a single virtual bus that interacts well with /sys, modutils, etc. Internally, different virtual device providers would (presumably) register with the single virtual bus. Dave Boutcher IBM Linux Technology Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/virtualization/attachments/20050124/1a6e9e32/attachment.htm
