Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:40:25 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
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* Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> The disassembly stuff indeed doesn't look like something
> that belongs in the kernel.

Strongly agreed.  The strict ABI requirements put forth here are not
in-line with Linux, IMO.  I think source compatibility is the limit of
reasonable, and any ROM code be in-tree if something like this were to
be viable upstream.

thanks,
-chris
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