Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:15:41 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux |
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:09:39AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 06/03/09 10:47, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Linux is not the only player here. NetBSD can run as dom0 guest. >>> Solaris can run as dom0 guest too. Thus making the dom0/xen interface >>> private to linux and xen isn't going to fly. >> >> It does not however preclude fixing the dom0 interface. > > It wasn't my intention to imply that. The interface can be extended > when needed. PAT support will probably be such a case. Changing it in > incompatible ways isn't going to work though.
But that means that if there is some fundamentally broken piece of dom0 design, that the Linux kernel will be stuck with it ***forever*** and it will contaminate code paths and make the code harder to maintain ***forever*** if we consent to the Xen merge? Is that really what you are saying? Be careful how you answer that....
- Ted
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