Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

From: Scott Feldman
Date: Wed May 05 2010 - 22:04:12 EST


On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" <sbhatewara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS agnostic infact
> (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs)

Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the
Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver?

-scott

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