Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v6] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:04:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.console,gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 09 June 2011 22:52:06 Timur Tabi wrote:
> Add the drivers/virt directory, which houses drivers that support
> virtualization environments, and add the Freescale hypervisor management
> driver.
> 
> The Freescale hypervisor management driver provides several services to
> drivers and applications related to the Freescale hypervisor:
> 
> 1. An ioctl interface for querying and managing partitions
> 
> 2. A file interface to reading incoming doorbells
> 
> 3. An interrupt handler for shutting down the partition upon receiving the
>    shutdown doorbell from a manager partition
> 
> 4. A kernel interface for receiving callbacks when a managed partition
>    shuts down.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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