Re: A proposal - binary

[David Lang]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > so if I understand this correctly we are saying that a kernel compiled to 
> > run on hypervisor A would need to be recompiled to run on hypervisor B, and 
> > recompiled again to run on hypervisor C, etc
> no the actual implementation of the operation structure is dynamic and can be 
> picked
> at runtime, so you can compile a kernel for A,B *and* C and at runtime the 
> kernel
> picks the one you have

Ok, I was under the impression that this sort of thing was frowned upon for 
hotpath items (which I understand a good chunk of this would be).

this still leaves the question of old client on new hypervisors that is 
continueing in other branches of this thread.

David Lang
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