From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@vmware.com>
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
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:23:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100505172316.GA25338@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 23:02 RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 0:32 ` David Miller
2010-05-05 0:38 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 2:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 0:58 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-05 19:00 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-05 17:29 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:47 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-05 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 20:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-05 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 22:05 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 2:03 ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 7:25 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-05-06 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-05-06 18:04 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-05 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-06 20:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-13 3:06 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-13 5:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-14 9:49 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:18 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-07-14 17:54 ` David Miller
2010-07-14 18:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-14 20:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-14 17:19 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 20:42 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:06 ` Greg KH
2010-05-05 17:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 19:44 ` Pankaj Thakkar
2010-05-06 8:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 20:46 ` Pankaj Thakkar
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