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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Urge caution on Xenlinux code changes

To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Urge caution on Xenlinux code changes
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:28:18 +0800
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>From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxx]
>Sent: 2006年4月21日 3:48
>On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:38 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
>> To me, most efforts currently on xen/ia64 community are actually
>> following above direction.
>>
>> So my point is simple: let's just do things right...
>
>   I agree, I think we're mainly on the right track.  We're still behind
>in functionality, and it's hard to be an equal partner with Xen/x86 when
>we have so many features yet to be implemented.  However, as Dan
>points,
>we do need to be cautious when modifying Linux/ia64 for Xen/ia64.  We
>need to try to make changes that will be acceptable to upstream
>Linux/ia64 and realize if we're trying to fit a square peg into a round
>hole ;^)  Thanks,
>
>       Alex
>

Yep.

Thanks,
Kevin

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