From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: netfront for review
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:00:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463A0730.8070007@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463A01F7.90500@redhat.com>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Drawback is that the guest kernel wouldn't work with older xen
> versions (dom0 netback driver to be exact) any more. Probably
> wouldn't be a showstopper though, given that xen 3.0.3 probably is
> almost one year out by the time 2.6.22 will be released ...
I don't think we've decided how backwards-compatible the pv_ops guest
should be. I've been working on the basis "as much as possible", so
long as it isn't a large burden.
J
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-05-02 3:37 ` netfront for review Rusty Russell
2007-05-02 3:51 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-02 4:23 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-02 4:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-02 19:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 7:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 14:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 14:30 ` Keir Fraser
2007-05-03 14:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 15:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 16:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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