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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>,
	Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com>, Anne Holler <anne@vmware.com>,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
	Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
	Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@ira.uka.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>,
	Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>, Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
	Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
	Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
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


  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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