[Lguest] [patch] lguest_dma.c

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Sat Aug 11 12:29:01 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:19 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:54 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On top of Steven's initial patches, I'd like to suggest this one which
> >> introduces lguest_dma.c which are the DMA related functions pulled in
> >> from lguest.c - it should be the non architecture specific stuff which
> >> I'd like to share.
> >>
> >> The only bit I had to mingle was LGUEST_IRQ_SHIFT since ia64 has more
> >> than 256 irq sources.
> >>
> >> Any objections to this approach? I think it should be very easy to fit
> >> this for x86_64 as well?
> > 
> > Sure.  I'm going to rewrite the I/O system as part of the virtio work in
> > the medium term, so this also contains the damage.
> 
> Great!
> 
> Who should push these patches upstream? Do they go through the
> 'lguest maintainer' ???

Yeah, I've added them to my patch queue.  This weekend is going to be
kind of mad, but I'll be back on deck on Monday (my time) so please keep
the patches coming!

Thanks,
Rusty.





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