Re: A proposal - binary

[Andi Kleen]

> For privileged domains that have hardware privileges and need to send 
> IPIs or something it might make sense. 

Any SMP guest needs IPI support of some sort.

But it is hopefully independent of subarchitectures in the paravirtualized
case.


> doesn't stop Linux from using the provided primitives in any way is 
> sees fit.  So it doesn't top evolution in that sense.  What it does stop 
> is having the Linux hypervisor interface grow antlers and have new 
> hooves grafted onto it.  What it sorely needed in the interface is a way 
> to probe 

That's the direction the interface is evolving I think (see multiple
entry point discussion) 

> and detect optional features that allow it to grow independent 
> of one particular hypervisor vendor.

Ok maybe not with options and subsets so far, but one has to
start somewhere.

-Andi
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