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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:19:18 -0400
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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:04:11AM -0700, Pankaj Thakkar wrote:
> Plugin is x86 or x64 machine code. You write the plugin in C and compile it using gcc/ld to get the object file, we map the relevant sections only to the OS space. 

Which is simply not supportable for a cross-platform operating system
like Linux.