Re: [PATCH 25/25] [PATCH] add paravirtualization support for x86_64

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:49 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops);
> >
> > Definitely _GPL at least.
> Sure.

We ended up making it EXPORT_SYMBOL in i386 because every driver wants
to save and restore interrupt state.

But questionably-licensed drivers might be less of a concern on x86-64.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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