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Re: [Xen-devel] PV drivers for HVM guests

To: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PV drivers for HVM guests
From: Steven Smith <sos22-xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:24:48 +0100
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> These differences can be dealt with in a couple of different ways:
> 1) Modify the code in the PV drivers under appropriate compilation
> switches to deal with the differences in the base kernels.
> 2) Introduce a compatibility component that bridges the gap between
> the current PV code and a given Linux target and leave much of the
> PV driver code untouched.
How much code is actually required in this abstraction layer?

Steven.

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