Re: Xen & VMI?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What are you driving at?  You seem to be arguing that abstractions are 
> bad unless done via ABI's. [...]

i'm still arguing the same: that doing the same thing via overlapping, 
conflicting, redundant ABIs is crazy and contrary to the basic interests 
of Linux. It's like having 5 different, parallel variants of sys_open(), 
interfaced via a convoluted open_ops.

having data ABI coupling is one thing (filesystems, network formats, 
etc.). But having a 5-way function ABI coupling between system software 
running on the /same piece of hardware/, doing the same thing in essence 
is just madness in my book.

	Ingo
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