Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal for init/kexec/hotplug format for Xen

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Feb 2005, at 13:40, Harry Butterworth wrote:

> No, not fundamentally true.  The registry approach decouples the
> generation of the hotplug events from the provider of devices such that
> if the domain hasn't booted yet then the provider of devices doesn't
> care: the registry will generate all the required hotplug events when
> the domain connects after it boots.
Yes, this is what I envision. Cooking things into binary-encoded device 
trees or hotplug events could also work, and might be less code in the 
guest OS, but I think it's a lerss clean design and would need more 
special-casing in domain0.
 -- Keir



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