Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

Anthony Liguori
2009-12-22T16:21:40Z

On 12/22/2009 10:01 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> new e1000 driver is more superior in architecture and do the required
>> work to make the new e1000 driver a full replacement for the old one.
>>
> Right, like everyone actually does things this way..
>
> I wonder why do we have OSS, old Firewire and IDE stacks still around then?
>

And it's always a source of pain, isn't it.

>>> I also personally don't see a big problem in having another set of
>>> virtual drivers -- Linux already has plenty (vmware, xen, virtio, power,
>>> s390-vm, ...) and it's not that they would be a particular maintenance
>>> burden impacting the kernel core.
>>>
> Exactly, I also don't see any problem here, especially since AlacrityVM
> drivers have much cleaner design / internal architecture than some of their
> competitors..
>

Care to provide some actual objective argument to why it's better than
what we already have?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori