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Message-ID: <20070306103137.GB7478@elte.hu> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:31:37 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, virtualization <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Xen & VMI? * Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de> wrote: > Thanks. That is actually the point I want make: although it is > *possible* to do that via VMI ROM, doing that using paravirt_ops is > *better* (no matter whenever the hypervisor is xen or kvm). [...] but paravirt_ops is not an ABI ... nor will it ever become one. So the fact remains: the extra ABIs towards external hypervisors are quite an issue. > [...] The very same discussion a couple months ago came to exactly > that conclusion. uhm, that discussion mostly only involved people interested in external hypervisors, not those poor souls who have to fix up the mess in the end within Linux ;-) [ I am very sure all foxes would come to the happy conclusion that there is no need for any stinkin' lock on the barn ;-) ] Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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