Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:00:42 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? |
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:26:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > On s390, it would be more than strangeness. There's no implementation > > of PCI at all, someone would have to cook it up - and it wouldn't have > > any use beyond those special devices. Since there isn't any bus type > > that is available on *all* architectures, a generic "virtual" bus with > > very simple probing seems much saner... > > You just have to change all the distribution installers then. > Ok I suppose on s390 that's not that big issue because there are not > that many for s390. But for x86 there exist quite a lot. I suppose > it's easier to change it in the kernel.
I don't get this point.
Compared to whatever will be done in the kernel, any change to a distribution installer should be trivial.
And a new release of a distribution with a new kernel might anyway usually require some updates to an installer.
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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