Chris said, and I agree, that we should try to get the basic PV-ops
infrastructure stuff into 2.6.19. To me this means being able to run a
kernel native with CONFIG_PARAVIRT, and see little or no functional or
performance degradation. What do we need to do to get there:
* fix the slowdown bug, which seems to be something to do with
rdmsr/wrmsr on SMP systems
* work out how to handle all the low-level system interfaces, like
ACPI, PnP BIOS, APM
* what else?
The system interfaces question is interesting. I'm assuming that if
we're running under a hypervisor, all those interfaces are either
missing or (later) virtualized - ie, the hypervisor deals with them.
But we still need to do that stuff running native, so the pv-ops
interface needs to have a way of selectively enabling them. Or maybe it
doesn't; will those pieces of code lie there passively if they're not poked?
J
