Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbWHDTrm (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932615AbWHDTrm (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:47:42 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:34720 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932605AbWHDTrl (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:47:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:45:49 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: David Lang Cc: Antonio Vargas , Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , jeremy@xensource.com, greg@kroah.com, zach@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, jlo@vmware.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, simon@xensource.com, ian.pratt@xensource.com, jeremy@goop.org Subject: Re: A proposal - binary Message-ID: <20060804194549.GA5897@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <44D24DD8.1080006@vmware.com> <20060803200136.GB28537@kroah.com> <44D2B678.6060400@xensource.com> <20060803211850.3a01d0cc.akpm@osdl.org> <1154667875.11382.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060803225357.e9ab5de1.akpm@osdl.org> <1154675100.11382.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <69304d110608041146t44077033j9a10ae6aee19a16d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 15 On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:06:28PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > I understand this, but for example a UML 2.6.10 kernel will continue to run > unmodified on top of a 2.6.17 kernel, the ABI used is stable. however if > you have a 2.6.10 host with a 2.6.10 UML guest and want to run a 2.6.17 > guest you may (but not nessasarily must) have to upgrade the host to 2.6.17 > or later. Why might you have to do that? Jeff - 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/