RE: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06T07:25:30Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Feldman [mailto:scofeldm@cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:04 PM
> To: Shreyas Bhatewara; Arnd Bergmann; Dmitry Torokhov
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; pv-drivers@vmware.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; virtualization@lists.linux-
> foundation.org; Pankaj Thakkar
> Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for
> vmxnet3
>
> On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under
> GPL.
> > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
> > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
> > modules.
>
> On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" <sbhatewara@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> > The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS
> agnostic infact
> > (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs)
>
> Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the
> Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver?
>
> -scott