Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:30:35 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
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       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:33:03PM +0100, 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. 

And the PowerPC hypervisor interface :)

Have you discussed this with those two groups to make sure you aren't
doing something that would merely duplicate what they have already done?

thanks,

greg k-h
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