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SubjectRe: A proposal - binary
David Lang wrote:
> if it's only a source-level API this implies that when you move your
> host kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.25 you would need to recompile your
> 2.6.19 guest kernel to support the modifications. where are the
> patches going to come from to do this?

No, the low-level interface between the kernel is an ABI, which will be
as stable as your hypervisor author/vendor wants it to be (which is
generally "very stable"). The question is whether that low-level
interface is exposed to the rest of the kernel directly, or hidden
behind a kernel-internal source-level API.

J
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