* Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at suse.de> wrote: > Thanks. That is actually the point I want make: although it is > *possible* to do that via VMI ROM, doing that using paravirt_ops is > *better* (no matter whenever the hypervisor is xen or kvm). [...] but paravirt_ops is not an ABI ... nor will it ever become one. So the fact remains: the extra ABIs towards external hypervisors are quite an issue. > [...] The very same discussion a couple months ago came to exactly > that conclusion. uhm, that discussion mostly only involved people interested in external hypervisors, not those poor souls who have to fix up the mess in the end within Linux ;-) [ I am very sure all foxes would come to the happy conclusion that there is no need for any stinkin' lock on the barn ;-) ] Ingo
