Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 2010 13:31:20 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 |
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On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:29:40AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel > > space, sorry. Don't even bother wasting your time on this. > > > > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL. > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel > modules.
The mechanism described in the document is loading a binary blob coded to an abstract API.
That's something entirely different from having normal modules for the Virtual Functions, which we already have for various pieces of hardware anyway.
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