Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-14 release

Avi Kivity
2007-03-05T08:52:43Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>> It's traditional for the mainline kernel to maintain backward
>> compatibility with existing userspace ABIs (e.g. syscalls).
>>
>> The idea of a userspace application breaking because of a mainline
>> kernel upgrade is not acceptable to users and also pretty much
>> unsupportable by distros.
>>
>
> That is of course very true, and it is a goal of kvm to have a stable
> userspace interface. I plan to target 2.6.21 as the stable ABI release.
>

As the alert reader will have guessed, this is now postponed to 2.6.22.
I will provide a nonintrusive patch backporting the stable ABI to 2.6.21
if desired.

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