Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes

["Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>]

Greg KH wrote:

> Why not do the same thing that the Cell developers did for their
> "special syscalls"?  Or at the least, make it a "real" syscall like the
> ppc64 developers did.  It's not like there isn't a whole bunch of "prior
> art" in the kernel today that you should be ignoring.

A hypercall syscall would be good in a lot of ways. For x86/x86_64 there 
are multiple hypervisors so we would need to make the syscall general 
enough to support more than one hypervisor.

Mike
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Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
ncmike@us.ibm.com
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