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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
