On Wednesday 05 May 2010 10:31:20 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:29:40AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel
space, sorry.  Don't even bother wasting your time on this.

It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL.
The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
modules.

The mechanism described in the document is loading a binary blob
coded to an abstract API.

Yes, with the exception that the only body of code that will be
accepted by the shell should be GPL-licensed and thus open and available
for examining. This is not different from having a standard kernel
module that is loaded normally and plugs into a certain subsystem.
The difference is that the binary resides not on guest filesystem
but elsewhere.

That's something entirely different from having normal modules for
the Virtual Functions, which we already have for various pieces of
hardware anyway.

-- 
Dmitry