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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-25 15:02:50 +1000 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-25 15:02:50 +1000 |
commit | e1e72965ec2c02db99b415cd06c17ea90767e3a4 (patch) | |
tree | 94e43aac35bdc33220e64f285b72b3b2b787fd57 /include/linux | |
parent | 568a17ffce2eeceae0cd9fc37e97cbad12f70278 (diff) | |
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lguest: documentation update
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/lguest.h | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/lguest_launcher.h | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lguest.h b/include/linux/lguest.h index 8beb291..175e63f 100644 --- a/include/linux/lguest.h +++ b/include/linux/lguest.h @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ #define LG_CLOCK_MAX_DELTA ULONG_MAX /*G:032 The second method of communicating with the Host is to via "struct - * lguest_data". The Guest's very first hypercall is to tell the Host where - * this is, and then the Guest and Host both publish information in it. :*/ + * lguest_data". Once the Guest's initialization hypercall tells the Host where + * this is, the Guest and Host both publish information in it. :*/ struct lguest_data { /* 512 == enabled (same as eflags in normal hardware). The Guest diff --git a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h index c41fd48..697104d 100644 --- a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h +++ b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h @@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ * real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices. * We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly * complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own - * "lguest" bus and simple drivers. + * simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of + * routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all + * the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add + * a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support + * for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change. * * Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config" * bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the |