linux-kernel - Re: A proposal

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Message-ID: <20060804194549.GA5897@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:45:49 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>
Cc:	Antonio Vargas <windenntw@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, jeremy@...source.com,
	greg@...ah.com, zach@...are.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, hch@...radead.org, jlo@...are.com,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, simon@...source.com,
	ian.pratt@...source.com, jeremy@...p.org
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:06:28PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> I understand this, but for example a UML 2.6.10 kernel will continue to run 
> unmodified on top of a 2.6.17 kernel, the ABI used is stable. however if 
> you have a 2.6.10 host with a 2.6.10 UML guest and want to run a 2.6.17 
> guest you may (but not nessasarily must) have to upgrade the host to 2.6.17 
> or later.

Why might you have to do that?

				Jeff
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