Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> The easiest thing I can think of is to have the PV disk driver show up 
>> as an actual PCI device and to use a PCI option rom to hijack the 
>> appropriate interrupt.
>>     
>
> yeah that's a good plan. Being a PCI device also helps with the OS
> userspace knowing which module to load; even if the device itself never
> gets accessed. 
>
>   

A problem with pci, at least if you use the pci interrupts, is that your 
interrupt might be shared with another device.  I guess a solution is 
not to use pci interrupts, but then we need some mechanism to allocate 
interrupts.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.


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