Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: A proposal - binary | Date | Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:52:36 +0200 |
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> For privileged domains that have hardware privileges and need to send > IPIs or something it might make sense.
Any SMP guest needs IPI support of some sort.
But it is hopefully independent of subarchitectures in the paravirtualized case.
> doesn't stop Linux from using the provided primitives in any way is > sees fit. So it doesn't top evolution in that sense. What it does stop > is having the Linux hypervisor interface grow antlers and have new > hooves grafted onto it. What it sorely needed in the interface is a way > to probe
That's the direction the interface is evolving I think (see multiple entry point discussion)
> and detect optional features that allow it to grow independent > of one particular hypervisor vendor.
Ok maybe not with options and subsets so far, but one has to start somewhere.
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