Xen devel - Feb 2007 - Documentation For Writing a Split Driver

I''ve spent the last few weeks digging around in Xen code and old 
documentation to produce my own simple split driver for 3.0.4-2 to 
handle some logging stuff that I''m doing.  In the process, I quickly 
discovered that the Wiki documentation for adding a new driver to Xen is 
a little lacking.  Is there any interest in me documenting any/all of 
the following and contributing it?
-Creating a backend/frontend skeleton driver and adding it to the kernel.
-Modifying xend and xm to initialize the XenStore for it.  (and hence 
get the probe functions to be called)
-Setting up event channels
-Setting up a ring buffer
-Sharing memory pages between domains (basically the grant tables)

Thanks
Ryan

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> I''ve spent the last few weeks digging around in Xen code and old
> documentation to produce my own simple split driver for 3.0.4-2 to
> handle some logging stuff that I''m doing.  In the process, I
quickly
> discovered that the Wiki documentation for adding a new driver to Xen
is
> a little lacking.  Is there any interest in me documenting any/all of
> the following and contributing it?
> -Creating a backend/frontend skeleton driver and adding it to the
kernel.
> -Modifying xend and xm to initialize the XenStore for it.  (and hence
> get the probe functions to be called)
> -Setting up event channels
> -Setting up a ring buffer
> -Sharing memory pages between domains (basically the grant tables)
"yes please" to all of the above!
Thanks,
Ian

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> > Is there any interest in me documenting any/all of
> > the following and contributing it?
> "yes please" to all of the above!
> Thanks,
> Ian
*metoo*
Very interested in that topic.

Thomas


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> I''ve spent the last few weeks digging around in Xen code and old
> documentation to produce my own simple split driver for 3.0.4-2 to
> handle some logging stuff that I''m doing.  In the process, I
quickly
> discovered that the Wiki documentation for adding a new driver to Xen is
> a little lacking.  Is there any interest in me documenting any/all of
> the following and contributing it?
Absolutely!!!!!
> -Creating a backend/frontend skeleton driver and adding it to the kernel.
Yep.  I remember there being a skeleton example driver floating around on the 
list at some point, but APIs may have changed since then I guess.
> -Modifying xend and xm to initialize the XenStore for it.  (and hence
> get the probe functions to be called)
Yep.  This is actually not that complicated, but it''d be nice to have
it
documented.
> -Setting up event channels
> -Setting up a ring buffer
> -Sharing memory pages between domains (basically the grant tables)
All good stuff.

You might also like to take a look at the stuff covered in the interface 
manual (it''s in the source tree) and see if there''s any
overlap with what
you''re writing - it would be nice to avoid duplicating information in 
multiple places, so that it won''t get out of sync later.

Cheers,
Mark

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