From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>,
Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com>, Anne Holler <anne@vmware.com>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@ira.uka.de>, Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>,
Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:06:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323010627.GS15997@sorel.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4421F1AD.1070108@vmware.com>
* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> No, you don't need to dream up all the possible interface bits ahead of
> time. With a la carte interfaces, you can take what you need now, and
> add features later. You don't need an ABI for features. You need it
> for compatibility. You will need to update the hypervisor ABI. And you
> can't force people to upgrade their kernels.
How do you support an interface that's not already a part of the ABI
w/out changing the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 18:02 Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 10:02 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 16:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 22:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-15 23:00 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-17 0:51 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-17 10:08 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-17 21:11 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-18 0:49 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-16 19:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-16 21:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 20:15 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 21:40 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 22:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 22:33 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-22 23:02 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 22:51 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 23:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 0:41 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 0:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 1:06 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2006-03-23 4:04 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 11:42 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-23 0:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-23 0:40 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 9:25 ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-23 18:50 ` [Xen-devel] " Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 23:45 ` Eli Collins
2006-03-23 0:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 0:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-23 1:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 23:41 Volkmar Uhlig
2006-03-28 0:52 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-28 1:48 ` Zachary Amsden
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