Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:40 -0600 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33 |
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On 12/22/2009 10:01 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> new e1000 driver is more superior in architecture and do the required >> work to make the new e1000 driver a full replacement for the old one. >> > Right, like everyone actually does things this way.. > > I wonder why do we have OSS, old Firewire and IDE stacks still around then? >
And it's always a source of pain, isn't it.
>>> I also personally don't see a big problem in having another set of >>> virtual drivers -- Linux already has plenty (vmware, xen, virtio, power, >>> s390-vm, ...) and it's not that they would be a particular maintenance >>> burden impacting the kernel core. >>> > Exactly, I also don't see any problem here, especially since AlacrityVM > drivers have much cleaner design / internal architecture than some of their > competitors.. >
Care to provide some actual objective argument to why it's better than what we already have?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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