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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/7] PCI multi-segment support

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/7] PCI multi-segment support
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:02:15 +0100
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Keir Fraser writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/7] PCI multi-segment 
support"):
> I think the intention is to maintain API compatibility for libxenlight, and
> have out-of-tree tool stacks/librariues build on top of that.

Yes, but we're not there yet.

> I think there are libvirt bindings to libxenlight now, for example?

There are but I'm not sure of their release status.

> My conclusion would be you can do the cleaner change to domctl. Interested
> in Ian Jackson's view however.

We need to preserve compatibility with other versions of linux and
qemu.  Do these programs need to know about these changes too ?

Ian.

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