Re: arch/xen is a bad idea

[Philip R Auld]

Rumor has it that on Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:08:24PM -0500 Rik van Riel said:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Philip R Auld wrote:
> 
> >The boot-time switch seems to be the ideal. This would allow
> >enterprise Linux vendors to support using Xen w/o having to
> >deal with a whole archicture release (including install kernel
> 
> I have no idea how such a boot-time switch would work
> for 3rd party device drivers, though, so don't count
> yourself lucky just yet ;)

I actually meant _OS_ vendors like you ;)
 
Cheers,

Phil


> 
> -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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