On Wednesday 05 May 2010 10:31:20 am Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:29:40AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel > > > space, sorry. Don't even bother wasting your time on this. > > > > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL. > > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the > > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel > > modules. > > The mechanism described in the document is loading a binary blob > coded to an abstract API.
Yes, with the exception that the only body of code that will be accepted by the shell should be GPL-licensed and thus open and available for examining. This is not different from having a standard kernel module that is loaded normally and plugs into a certain subsystem. The difference is that the binary resides not on guest filesystem but elsewhere. > > That's something entirely different from having normal modules for > the Virtual Functions, which we already have for various pieces of > hardware anyway. -- Dmitry _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
