Re: A proposal - binary

David Lang
2006-08-04T22:48:53Z

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>
>> so if I understand this correctly we are saying that a kernel compiled to
>> run on hypervisor A would need to be recompiled to run on hypervisor B, and
>> recompiled again to run on hypervisor C, etc
>>
> no the actual implementation of the operation structure is dynamic and can be
> picked
> at runtime, so you can compile a kernel for A,B *and* C and at runtime the
> kernel
> picks the one you have

Ok, I was under the impression that this sort of thing was frowned upon for
hotpath items (which I understand a good chunk of this would be).

this still leaves the question of old client on new hypervisors that is
continueing in other branches of this thread.

David Lang