Device Drivers Best Practice

[John Levon]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:05:10PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> So I've undertaken to write a replacement.  Here's a draft.  Note that 
> this is not in the format for BPs.  We can correct that later -- mostly 
> I want to offer this up for a general review/comment/feedback at this 
> point, and once we have the content mostly stable, I'll submit a new 
> case for it.

I think you should at least mention virtualization as a general issue.
For example, under xVM, old-style port I/O is rather slow.

regards
john