Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

Avi Kivity
2010-03-19T07:23:26Z

On 03/19/2010 12:16 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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>> Yes its a double standard
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>> Glibc has a higher standard than Fedora/RHEL.
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>> Just like the Ubuntu kernel ships various ugly unfit for upstream kernel
>> drivers.
>>
> There's a world of a difference between a fugly driver and a glibc patch.
>
>

Yes, fugly drivers can be cleaned up, but glibc ABIs are forever.

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