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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt
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    On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > 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'd really like lguest guests not to do ins and outs, but that's likely
    to be more invasive a change than this. We do it to find the PCI bus
    IIRC, and a couple of other early probe bits.

    It's just unfortunate that it's the one place lguest has to emulate
    because of lack of paravirt_ops coverage.

    Rusty.

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