Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/40] xenner: kernel: 64-bit files

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/01/2010 02:00 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Graf<address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > On 01.11.2010, at 11:44, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > On 11/01/2010 10:01 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > >        
> > > > This patch adds various header files required for the xenner kernel on 64 bit
> > > > systems.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<address@hidden>
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > I think it might make more sense to put this on a separate git.qemu.org 
> > > repository and then use a submodule in roms/.
> > >        
> > The main reason why I wanted to have it fully in the qemu tree is so that we can 
> > guarantee the qemu<->xenner interface is 100% private. I'm not sure how much 
> > it'll be in a flux, but I don't want to go through the hassle of defining stable ABIs 
> > where we don't have to :)
> >      
> How is this different from SeaBIOS or OpenBIOS, both use fw_cfg
> interface?

At least with SeaBIOS, we don't provide a stable ABI.  That's why we 
ship a specific version in roms/.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   Also, after the ABI has stabilized (in the future), will
> you detach xenner from QEMU tree since this argument is no longer
> valid?
>