From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: avi@redhat.com
Cc: andreas.faerber@web.de, void@aleksoft.net, jan.kiszka@web.de,
glommer@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] remove pieces of source code
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:20:01 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090531.102001.-1947355450.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2288C6.9070206@redhat.com>
In message: <4A2288C6.9070206@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> writes:
: Andreas Färber wrote:
: > I have a dream of something like the Open Group specification, which
: > describes a virtualization standard in terms of required C types,
: > preprocessor defines, functions, valid parameters, expected return
: > values etc. It would allow multiple source-compatible but differing
: > implementations and would in theory even allow to consolidate the
: > current virtualization island solutions into sane, interoperable
: > solutions. Is this too far from KVM reality?
:
: Aren't those things standardized only after everyone loses interest in them?
:
: It's on my TODO to document the kvm interfaces. Unfortunately
: documentation jobs tend to stay low on the priority list. If someone
: wants to volunteer to do this I will render them any assistance I can.
Documenting is a good way to learn interfaces as well. Especially if
you can get people who know what they really do (or should do) review
your initial idea of what's going on... :)
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-28 23:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] remove pieces of source code Glauber Costa
2009-05-29 5:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-29 9:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-05-29 9:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-29 9:35 ` Stefan Weil
2009-06-02 20:09 ` Stuart Brady
2009-06-02 20:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-29 10:00 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-05-29 10:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-29 11:35 ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-30 18:04 ` François Revol
2009-05-31 9:13 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-31 14:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-31 15:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-29 11:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2009-05-29 11:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-29 15:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Consul
2009-05-29 18:49 ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-30 10:26 ` Andreas Färber
2009-05-31 9:15 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-31 13:08 ` Andreas Färber
2009-05-31 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-31 16:20 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2009-05-31 15:10 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-06-06 10:17 ` Andreas Färber
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