Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes

From: Mike D. Day
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 14:17:00 EST


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
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Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
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