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The Great Renaming has not happened yet becase James Morris offered to look at SMP host support, and it would completely screw his merge if I rename everything.

However, my TODO list has been reordered into "before the merge" and "after the merge". Now the console is non-bufferred, I've been spending more time actually working inside an lhype guest. This has refocused me away from optimizations (and there are still plenty there) and back towards functionality. In particular, suspend/resume has moved to "before the merge", since obviously the startup and resume paths should be the same.

I want a trivial "lguest" program to live inside the kernel sources; since the lhype/ll ABI can change kernel to kernel, at least at this stage, distributing the launch tool separately doesn't make much sense. But obviously lhype_add is already 900 lines and will only grow with things like support for new devices, device hotplug and suspend/resume. I need to resolve this in a reasonable way, possibly through some sane use of dynamic libraries as fairly open-ended plugins.

So here's my "pre-merge" TODO at the moment:

• SMP host support
• Suspend/resume
• Unlimited DMA receive buffers
• Neaten get_dma proc op.
• Plugins support

And afterwards (ie. less urgent/more blue-sky).

• Debug trap/int3 support (ie. direct interrupt gates).
• Don't COW pages when they are read in get_pfn
• More intelligent cr3 reload
• pte optimizations
• Lazy mode support
• Tickless idle
• Stolen time.
• Allow normal users to access lhype
• Framebuffer support

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