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[PATCH v3 00/18] admin: reconfirming the TC charter

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:50:00 -0000

In the background section, be more specific that it refers to state at the time it was written (2013). Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> Acked-by: Halil Pasic <[email protected]> --- charter.html 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/charter.html b/charter.html index 7006009..1e1ffd3 100644 --- a/charter.html +++ b/charter.html @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ These guests need networks, storage, consoles and similar but non-virtualization-aware standard devices cannot be shared, or guests may not be permitted to access host devices at all. The simplest solution is to emulate a device expected by the guest operating system, but this can be slow and/or complicated. As most operating systems have facilities for adding drivers for new physical hardware, we can use the same facilities to add drivers for devices which are easier and/or more efficient to implement in software. </p> <p> - As every hypervisor is different, they tend to implement hypervisor-specific devices, requiring every guest to support a new device for that environment. For example, Linux currently supports completely separate drivers for eight different virtualization platforms, with most drivers being sub-optimal. In 2007, an attempt was made to implement a hypervisor and OS-agnostic device model in Linux guests and the KVM hypervisor over the standard PCI bys. This is now also supported by the VirtualBox hypervisor (2010) and FreeBSD guests (2011). + As every hypervisor is different, they tend to implement hypervisor-specific devices, requiring every guest to support a new device for that environment. For example, in 2013 Linux supported completely separate drivers for eight different virtualization platforms, with most drivers being sub-optimal. In 2007, an attempt was made to implement a hypervisor and OS-agnostic device model in Linux guests and the KVM hypervisor over the standard PCI bus. This is now supported by multiple other hypervisors. </p> <p> A Draft Specification -- MST