Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964780AbWHCWbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:31:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932555AbWHCWbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:31:39 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:23465 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932534AbWHCWbi (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:31:38 -0400 Message-ID: <44D2794A.0@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:31:38 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo Subject: Re: A proposal - binary References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <20060803190605.GB14237@kroah.com> <44D24DD8.1080006@vmware.com> <20060803200136.GB28537@kroah.com> <44D26D87.2070208@vmware.com> <1154644383.23655.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1154644383.23655.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 21 Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 14:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden: > >> Hence my point follows. Using source compiled with the kernel as a >> module does nothing to provide a stable interface to the backend >> hardware / hypervisor implementation. >> > > Could have fooled me. It seems to work for the IBM Mainframe people > really well. > Yes, but not because of source compatibility. It works because the hypervisor layer is actually architected in the hardware. Zach - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/