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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/40] xenner: kernel: 64-bit files
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 11/01/2010 02:00 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Graf<agraf@suse.de>  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<agraf@suse.de>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> 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?
>