Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v6] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 17:05:13 EST


On Thursday 09 June 2011 22:52:06 Timur Tabi wrote:
> Add the drivers/virt directory, which houses drivers that support
> virtualization environments, and add the Freescale hypervisor management
> driver.
>
> The Freescale hypervisor management driver provides several services to
> drivers and applications related to the Freescale hypervisor:
>
> 1. An ioctl interface for querying and managing partitions
>
> 2. A file interface to reading incoming doorbells
>
> 3. An interrupt handler for shutting down the partition upon receiving the
> shutdown doorbell from a manager partition
>
> 4. A kernel interface for receiving callbacks when a managed partition
> shuts down.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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