Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161562AbWHDWrR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161563AbWHDWrR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:47:17 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:24453 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161562AbWHDWrQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:47:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:43:47 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang.diginsite.com To: Andi Kleen cc: Zachary Amsden , Chris Wright , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, pazke@donpac.ru Subject: Re: A proposal - binary In-Reply-To: <200608050001.52535.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <20060804183448.GE11244@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <44D3B0F0.2010409@vmware.com> <200608050001.52535.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 18 On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > The problem with VMI is that while it allows hypervisor side evolution > it doesn't really allow Linux side evolution with its fixed spec. > > But having it a bit isolated is probably ok. actually, wouldn't something like this allow for a one-way evolution (the spec can be changed, but the hypervisor side needs to support clients what only talk older versions. i.e. the new spec is a superset of the old one (barring major security-type problems that require exeptions to the rules))? David Lang - 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/