RE: [PATCH 0/3] Documentation: hyperv: Add basic info on Hyper-V enlightenments

From: Michael Kelley (LINUX)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2022 - 14:43:40 EST


From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 11:12 AM
>
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 08:43:39AM -0700, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > This documentation is a high level overview to explain the basics
> > of Linux running as a guest on Hyper-V. The intent is to document
> > the forest, not the trees. The Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec
> > provides conceptual material and API details for the core Hyper-V
> > hypervisor, and this documentation provides additional info on
> > how that functionality is applied to Linux. Also, there's no
> > public documentation on VMbus or the VMbus synthetic devices, so
> > this documentation helps fill that gap at a conceptual level. This
> > documentation is not API-level documentation, which can be seen
> > in the code and associated comments.
> >
> > More topics will be added in future patches, including:
> >
> > * Miscellaneous synthetic devices like KVP, timesync, VSS, etc.
>
> There is an UIO driver for Hyper-V. I think that falls under this
> category. Not sure if that's on your radar to cover?
>

Good point. I'll add it to my list. :-)

Michael