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

[Blue Swirl]

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you detach xenner from QEMU tree since this argument is no longer
valid?