Re: A proposal - binary

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Fri Aug 04 2006 - 15:45:23 EST


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:06:28PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> I understand this, but for example a UML 2.6.10 kernel will continue to run
> unmodified on top of a 2.6.17 kernel, the ABI used is stable. however if
> you have a 2.6.10 host with a 2.6.10 UML guest and want to run a 2.6.17
> guest you may (but not nessasarily must) have to upgrade the host to 2.6.17
> or later.

Why might you have to do that?

Jeff
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