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

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Message-ID: <20220706181207.45jcurksoblsrerq@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 18:12:07 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, decui@...rosoft.com, corbet@....net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Documentation: hyperv: Add basic info on Hyper-V
 enlightenments

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?

Thanks,
Wei.