On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Gregory Haskins <[email protected]> wrote: > It is certainly not a requirement to make said > chip somehow work with existing drivers/facilities on bare metal, per > se. Why should virtual systems be different?
i'd guess it's an issue of support resources. a hardware developer creates a chip and immediately sells it, getting small but assured revenue, with it they write (or pays to write) drivers for a couple of releases, and stop to manufacture it as soon as it's not profitable. software has a much longer lifetime, especially at the platform-level (and KVM is a platform for a lot of us). also, being GPL, it's cheaper to produce but has (much!) more limited resources. creating a new support issue is a scary thought. -- Javier _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
