On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > 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 :)
This is the same situation as with OpenBIOS. We also ship known good pc-bios/openbios-* files to help bisection etc.
