Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755493AbXIOIBA (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751834AbXIOIAy (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:00:54 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:34340 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731AbXIOIAx (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: <46EB9134.8070505@qumranet.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:00:52 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nakajima, Jun" CC: Anthony Liguori , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure References: <11897991353793-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com><46EAF4C6.8090903@goop.org> <46EAF6FC.80207@codemonkey.ws><46EAFBA0.4020503@goop.org> <46EB0136.6080105@codemonkey.ws><46EB02BA.6030909@goop.org> <46EB0657.40603@codemonkey.ws> <97D612E30E1F88419025B06CB4CF1BE10379EBF9@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <97D612E30E1F88419025B06CB4CF1BE10379EBF9@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (firebolt.argo.co.il [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:00:52 +0300 (IDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 19 Nakajima, Jun wrote: > To me this is the beginning of fragmentation. Why do we need different > and VMM-specific Linux paravirtualization for hardware-assisted > virtualization? That would not be good for Linux. > > The only way to have a single interface is if a central authority defines and documents that interface, and all hypervisor implementors agree not to implement extensions. Do you see that happening? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. - 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/