Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:40:06 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
       Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
       Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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       Anne Holler <anne@vmware.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
       Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>, Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>,
       Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
       Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
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* Anthony Liguori (aliguori@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Would you have less trouble if the "ROM" were actually more like a 
> module?  Specifically, if it had a proper elf header and symbol table, 
> used symbols as entry points, and was a GPL interface (so that ROM's had 
> to be GPL)?  Then it's just a kernel module that's hidden in the option 
> ROM space and has a C interface.

Yeah, point is the interface is normal C API, and has the similar free
form that normal kernel API's have.

thanks,
-chris
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