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RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH][VT] add a directory for para-driver support

To: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Xiaofeng Ling" <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH][VT] add a directory for para-driver support in unmodified linux.
From: "Petersson, Mats" <mats.petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:59:18 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Pratt
> Sent: 05 September 2005 09:02
> To: Xiaofeng Ling; Keir Fraser
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH][VT] add a directory for 
> para-driver support in unmodified linux.
> 
> > This patch adds a directory for para-driver support in unmodified 
> > linux.
> > The event channel is made to a pci device, the event is 
> delivered by 
> > this device.
> > The build script will create the symbol link to 
> linux-sparse tree for 
> > all the front end driver. A prinstine kernel path shall be given in 
> > compile.sh.
> 
> Does this follow 'best practice' for building out of tree 
> linux kernel modules? Or at least copy the build practice for 
> other common modules?
> 
> I don't think its really a sparse tree, so we should probably 
> change the name.
> Perhaps 'hve-drivers/linux-2.6'?  (I forget what name we 
> settled on for the generic VT/Pacifica abstraction, I think 
> it was 'hve'.)

>From my recollection, it's hvm. 

--
Mats
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> Ian
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