Re: Xen & VMI?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> 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
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