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SubjectRe: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for paravirt_ops interface
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>> This patch series implements the Linux Xen guest in terms of the
>> paravirt-ops interface.
>>
>
> The whole patchset exports 67 symbols to modules. How come?
>
> Are they all needed?

Yep, pretty much. They're all generally to do with Xen's virtual device
model, and are needed by modular frontend/backed drivers. This series
only includes the basic block and network frontend devices, but there
are more waiting in the wings.

The breakdown, roughly, is:

* event channel management
* pseudophysical <-> machine addresses
* grant-table management
* xenbus, which includes
o which has a filesystem-like namespace
o the means to monitor changes in objects in the namespace
o shared resource management
o suspend/resume



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