From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752975Ab0EERXT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 13:23:19 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55338 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254Ab0EERXR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 13:23:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:23:16 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pankaj Thakkar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com, sbhatewara@vmware.com Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Message-ID: <20100505172316.GA25338@infradead.org> References: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:02:25PM -0700, Pankaj Thakkar wrote: > The plugin image is provided by the IHVs along with the PF driver and is > packaged in the hypervisor. The plugin image is OS agnostic and can be loaded > either into a Linux VM or a Windows VM. The plugin is written against the Shell > API interface which the shell is responsible for implementing. The API We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel space, sorry. Don't even bother wasting your time on this.