Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86 paravirt_ops: implementation of paravirt_ops

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 01:38:36 EST


On Monday 07 August 2006 06:47, Rusty Russell wrote:
> This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized
> instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently
> these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors
> will override the ops structure with their own variants.

You should call it HAL - that would make it clearer what it is.

I think I would prefer to patch always. Is there a particular
reason you can't do that?

-Andi

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