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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-22 03:24:21 +0200
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-23 07:49:56 +0200
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parentRemove old lguest I/O infrrasructure. (diff)
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Lguest support for Virtio
This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices. We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data. We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the host when it changes. We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early console output. We could have another hypercall, but this hack works quite well. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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