On 01.11.2010, at 15:02, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 11/01/2010 02:00 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Graf<ag...@suse.de> wrote: >> >>> On 01.11.2010, at 11:44, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 11/01/2010 10:01 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> >>>>> This patch adds various header files required for the xenner kernel on 64 >>>>> bit >>>>> systems. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<ag...@suse.de> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I think it might make more sense to put this on a separate git.qemu.org >>>> repository and then use a submodule in roms/. >>>> >>> The main reason why I wanted to have it fully in the qemu tree is so that >>> we can guarantee the qemu<->xenner interface is 100% private. I'm not sure >>> how much it'll be in a flux, but I don't want to go through the hassle of >>> defining stable ABIs where we don't have to :) >>> >> How is this different from SeaBIOS or OpenBIOS, both use fw_cfg >> interface? > > At least with SeaBIOS, we don't provide a stable ABI. That's why we ship a > specific version in roms/.
So if we can assume that the interface is 100% internal and can break at any time and there's no guarantee that a newer version of qemu works with an older version of xenner or vice versa, I'm perfectly fine in making it its own project :) Alex
