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RE: [Xen-devel] Arch dependent tools/libxc?
| To: | "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | RE: [Xen-devel] Arch dependent tools/libxc? |
| From: | "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 18 May 2005 08:08:27 +0100 |
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| Thread-topic: | [Xen-devel] Arch dependent tools/libxc? |
> Hi, list,
> When trying to add support for multiple domains on
> IPF/VTI, immediately we realized current tools/libxc too x86
> specific, like xc_linux_build.c, xc_linux_save.c, etc. which
> are always compiled assumed upon x86 vcpu_guest_context_t.
> Ideally they should only be compiled upon specific platform.
>
> One solution is to add bunch of boring "ifdef
> __x86_32... ifdef __ia64__" in Makefile, which however gonna
> pollute many places. Since tools/libxc is the place coupled
> with arch context most tightly, a better option may be to
> move those files into arch dependent directory like
> tools/libxc/{x86, ia64, etc}:
> Xc_linux_build.c
> Xc_plan9_build.c
> Xc_vmx_build.c
> Xc_linux_save.c
> Xc_linux_restore.c
> Xc_ptrace.c
> Xc_ptrace_core.c
> And some header files like linux_boot_params.h
Yep, this needs to happen.
Ian
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