[Lguest] non i386 patches

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Aug 9 10:11:52 EST 2007


--
When I'm asked what language is my mother tongue,
I simply answer "C".

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:53 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was hoping to be able to steal and plunder from other people's work
> > on non-i386 lguest. Anyone have their patches online somewhere or do I
> > need to start ripping out all the x86 asm from drivers/lguest myself? :)
>
> Carsten and Glauber/Steven are the other port people.  I don't know
> where Carsten reached, but the x86-64 people basically forked with the
> intention of recombining.
>
> So I think you might be the pioneer here.  Patches welcome.  Either we
> can do arch/<arch>/lguest/ or drivers/lguest/<arch>.  Your call.
>
> I'm happy to completely rip apart the i386 code, frankly.  eg. if I've
> called something 'cr3' I'd much rather it be renamed 'last_page_fault'
> and made generic than just bundled inside lguest.arch.cr3.

Rusty,

I'm currently in the process of sending out patches that make a
drivers/lguest/<arch>

I'm just working on my quilt skills to make the send. They should be out
in a matter of minutes.

-- Steve




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