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lguest: documentation update

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Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes.  This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell 2007-10-25 15:02:50 +10:00
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include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
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* real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices.
* We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly
* complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own
* "lguest" bus and simple drivers.
* simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of
* routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all
* the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add
* a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support
* for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change.
*
* Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config"
* bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the