From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:15:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222115.46926.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603131802.k2DI2nv8005665@zach-dev.vmware.com>
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:02, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> The VMI ROM detection and code patching mechanism is illustrated in
> setup.c. There ROM is a binary block published by the hypervisor, and
> and there are certainly implications of this. ROMs certainly have a
> history of being proprietary, very differently licensed pieces of
> software, and mostly under non-free licenses. Before jumping to the
> conclusion that this is a bad thing, let us consider more carefully
> why hiding the interface layer to the hypervisor is actually a good
> thing.
How about you fix all these issues you describe here first
and then submit it again?
The disassembly stuff indeed doesn't look like something
that belongs in the kernel.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-22 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 18:02 [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 10:02 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 16:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 22:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-15 23:00 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-17 0:51 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-17 10:08 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-17 21:11 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-18 0:49 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-16 19:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-16 21:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 20:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-22 21:40 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 22:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 22:33 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-22 23:02 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 22:51 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 23:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 0:41 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 0:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 1:06 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 4:04 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 11:42 ` Joshua LeVasseur
2006-03-23 0:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-23 0:40 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 9:25 ` Keir Fraser
2006-03-23 18:50 ` [Xen-devel] " Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 23:45 ` Eli Collins
2006-03-23 0:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-23 0:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-03-23 1:01 ` Zachary Amsden
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-22 23:41 Volkmar Uhlig
2006-03-28 0:52 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-28 1:48 ` Zachary Amsden
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