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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:33:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: mingo@...e.hu Cc: jeremy@...p.org, ak@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, chrisw@...s-sol.org, zach@...are.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, anthony@...emonkey.ws, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:24:45 +0100 > ugh. This is beyond ugly! Why dont we just compile two images, one for > Xen and one for native, do two passes to get those two images and > 'merge' them into a single vmlinuz (so that we still have a 'single' > kernel unit to deal with on the distro side). This way we avoid all this > crazy, limited, fragile patchery business... Perhaps the problem can be dealt with using ELF relocations. There is another case, discussed yesterday on netdev, where run-time resolution of ELF relocations would be useful (for very-very-very-read-only variables) so if it can solve this problem too it would be nice to have a generic infrastructure for it. - 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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