From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:55:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0711080455tb135bdam4f7127b5f4feb543@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1283090b18624c745823f74c1e720c1@hamnavoe.com>
On Nov 8, 2007 6:00 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > So, the decision in the linux virtualization world is to make all
> > paravirtual devices look like ... drum roll ... PCI devices.
>
> That's really tragic. Virtualisation of devices would be such a good
> opportunity to invent a nice simple interface abstracting away from
> all the hardware constraints. Sure, all the guest OSs will need new
> drivers - but using a simple interface means they should be really
> easy to write.
>
The opportunity still exists -- only one driver needs to implement
their numeric hack - 9p. Then the rest can be based off of that.
Unfortunately, evolution just comes slow and painful.
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 7:31 ron minnich
2007-11-08 12:00 ` Richard Miller
2007-11-08 12:55 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2007-11-08 15:20 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 16:07 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-08 16:38 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 17:24 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-08 16:10 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-08 16:33 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 16:42 ` ron minnich
2007-11-08 16:51 ` roger peppe
2007-11-08 13:57 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 19:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-09 1:07 ` dave.l
2007-11-09 4:43 ` Paul Lalonde
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