On Monday 07 August 2006 06:47, Rusty Russell wrote:

This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized
instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure.  Currently
these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors
will override the ops structure with their own variants.

You should call it HAL - that would make it clearer what it is.

I think I would prefer to patch always. Is there a particular
reason you can't do that?

-Andi