lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <463A0730.8070007@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 09:00:48 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: netfront for review

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Drawback is that the guest kernel wouldn't work with older xen
> versions (dom0 netback driver to be exact) any more.  Probably
> wouldn't be a showstopper though, given that xen 3.0.3 probably is
> almost one year out by the time 2.6.22 will be released ...

I don't think we've decided how backwards-compatible the pv_ops guest
should be.  I've been working on the basis "as much as possible", so
long as it isn't a large burden.

    J
-
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/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ