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Re: [Xen-devel] simple backend, frontend

To: mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] simple backend, frontend
From: Andrew Warfield <andrew.warfield@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:18:09 +0000
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You may also want to look at docs/misc/blkif-drivers-explained.txt,
which has a textual description of how the split block drivers work. 
Alex went through it about a week ago and brought it up to date with
the (then) current sources.

a.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:07:09 +0000, Mark A. Williamson
<mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the event you can't find a simple example, feel free to ask questions about
> the existing block / net drivers.  You'll find that the frontends are much
> simpler so you may want to look at those first.  I also found that the
> backend for network was easier to understand than the block backend.
> 
> You should also look at domain_controller.h, which defines all of the control
> messages used to set up the shared memory and event channels.
> 
> HTH,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 15:37, Deepak Manohar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have a custom backend, frontend pair?  Preferably a very
> > simple one that simply sets up eventchannels and shared memory pages.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Deepak
> >
> >
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