From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262720AbULQCHz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:07:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262721AbULQCHz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:07:55 -0500 Received: from roadrunner-base.egenera.com ([63.160.166.46]:55252 "EHLO coyote.egenera.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262720AbULQCHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:07:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:07:29 -0500 From: Philip R Auld To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ian Pratt , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: arch/xen is a bad idea Message-ID: <20041217020729.GA17779@vienna.egenera.com> References: <20041216102652.6a5104d2.akpm@osdl.org> <20041216220434.GC16621@vienna.egenera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rumor has it that on Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:08:24PM -0500 Rik van Riel said: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Philip R Auld wrote: > > >The boot-time switch seems to be the ideal. This would allow > >enterprise Linux vendors to support using Xen w/o having to > >deal with a whole archicture release (including install kernel > > I have no idea how such a boot-time switch would work > for 3rd party device drivers, though, so don't count > yourself lucky just yet ;) I actually meant _OS_ vendors like you ;) Cheers, Phil > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan