Re: How to handle kvm-abi-10 case for other archs.

Jeremy Katz
2007-12-03T13:09:11Z

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:10 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > I think new archs for kvm doesn't need to care about kvm-abi
> > case in their code, since current abi is bigger than 10. But in current
> > libkvm.c, we can see that many abi-specific code in it. How to handle it
> > ? Can we use __x86__ macro to make it sightless for other archs or
> > other good methods ?
> >
>
> #ifdef is okay for this. Actually we can probably remove abi 10 support
> since the F7 kernel now supports the modern ABI (I don't think anybody
> else uses abi 10, which is pre 2.6.22 when we announced ABI compatibility.
>
> Jeremy, is removing abi 10 support fine with you? I note that both the
> kernel supports the new ABI and F7 userspace doesn't require it, so
> we're fine on both counts.

Yeah, that sounds like it should be fine. The updates have been out for
quite a while at this point

Jeremy