Paul Brook wrote: >> Is this a reasonable merge strategy? We won't introduce regressions but >> I can't guarantee these new things will work cross-architecture. >> > > I think it depends to some extent whether things will need rewriting to be > made cross-architecture. In particular if this requires interface changes. > This means either breaking existing guests, or having to support both > interfaces. >
That's a reasonable stance to take. I don't think anything in the tree right now presents that problem. I'll start sending out some patches and if you have specific concerns, we can talk about them 1-by-1. > e.g. the extboot stuff seems like something that should be usable by all > targets, except that the current interface looks like it's inherently x86 > specific. > Well with extboot in particular, the only interface is between the extboot option ROM and QEMU and I don't think that breaking that interface will matter much in practice. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
