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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

  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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