Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:34 -0800, Dan Hecht wrote:
> On 03/07/2007 01:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:07 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > That would certainly be ideal.  We'll look at the xen, vmi, lguest and
> >> kvm paravirtualized time models and see how much they really have in
> >> common.  I'm a bit curious about how vmi's time events make their way
> >> back into the system.
> > 
> > By the crude mechanism I'm fighting.
> >
> 
> Hmm?  They make there way back via interrupts.  How is that crude?

Simply because you _ABUSE_ timer_init_hook() to set it up. Keep it self
contained and do not impose restrictions on the kernel core code, which
we have to maintain.

	tglx


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