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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?

  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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