On 06/21/2011 12:32 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Paul Brook<p...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > Yeah, that's why I said, "hard to do well". It makes it very hard to add
>> > new socket types.
>>
>> PCI, USB, IDE, SCSI, SBus, what else? APICBus? I2C? 8 socket types
>> ought to be enough for anybody.
>
> Off the top of my head: AClink (audio), i2s (audio), SSI/SSP (synchonous
> serial), Firewire, rs232, CAN, FibreChannel, ISA, PS2, ADB (apple desktop
bus)
> and probably a bunch of others I've missed. There's also a bunch of all-but
> extinct system architectures with interesting bus-level features (MCA, NuBus,
> etc.)
Are these really buses with identifiable sockets? For example, it's
not possible to enumerate the users of ISA bus or RS-232.
It's not possible from the guest, but it's possible from outside the guest.
RS-232 even supports hotplug.
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