Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161195AbWALTSY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161197AbWALTSY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:24 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:59370 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161195AbWALTSX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43C6AB78.1040301@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:16 -0500 From: "Mike D. Day" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Anthony Liguori , Gerd Hoffmann , Arjan van de Ven , lkml , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes References: <43C53DA0.60704@us.ibm.com> <20060111230704.GA32558@kroah.com> <43C5A199.1080708@us.ibm.com> <20060112005710.GA2936@kroah.com> <43C5B59C.8050908@us.ibm.com> <43C65196.8040402@suse.de> <1137072089.2936.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43C66ACC.60408@suse.de> <20060112173926.GD10513@kroah.com> <43C6A5B4.80801@us.ibm.com> <20060112190845.GA13073@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060112190845.GA13073@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 24 Greg KH wrote: > > Why not do the same thing that the Cell developers did for their > "special syscalls"? Or at the least, make it a "real" syscall like the > ppc64 developers did. It's not like there isn't a whole bunch of "prior > art" in the kernel today that you should be ignoring. A hypercall syscall would be good in a lot of ways. For x86/x86_64 there are multiple hypervisors so we would need to make the syscall general enough to support more than one hypervisor. Mike -- Mike D. Day STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization IBM Linux Technology Center ncmike@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/