Re: netfront for review

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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
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