On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:10 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> >     I think new archs for kvm doesn't need to care about kvm-abi
> > case in their code, since current abi is bigger than 10. But in current
> > libkvm.c, we can see that many abi-specific code in it. How to handle it
> > ?  Can we use __x86__ macro to make it sightless for other archs or
> > other good methods ?
> >   
> 
> #ifdef is okay for this.  Actually we can probably remove abi 10 support 
> since the F7 kernel now supports the modern ABI (I don't think anybody 
> else uses abi 10, which is pre 2.6.22 when we announced ABI compatibility.
> 
> Jeremy, is removing abi 10 support fine with you?  I note that both the 
> kernel supports the new ABI and F7 userspace doesn't require it, so 
> we're fine on both counts.

Yeah, that sounds like it should be fine.  The updates have been out for
quite a while at this point

Jeremy


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