Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:25:28 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt |
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> I still think it's preferable to change some drivers than everybody. > > AFAIK BusLogic as real hardware is pretty much dead anyways, > so you're probably the only primary user of it anyways. > Go wild on it!
I don't believe anyone is materially maintaining the buslogic driver and in time its going to break completely.
> Well that might be. I just think it would be a mistake > to design paravirt_ops based on someone's short term release engineering > considerations.
Agreed, especially as an interface where each in or out traps into the hypervisor is broken even for the model of virtualising hardware.
> I thought we had that already? But can't find it now :/
pci_iomap() and friends.
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