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RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch 1/2] Re-org dom0_ops.h to allow arch specificdefi

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch 1/2] Re-org dom0_ops.h to allow arch specificdefinition
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:25:18 +0100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Patch 1/2] Re-org dom0_ops.h to allow arch specificdefinition
> I'm not sure whether this is right way to go, but sometimes 
> specific architecture may have its own different dom0 
> operations. Attached patch tries to arrange definition of 
> operations to the way where each architecture is allocated 
> with exclusive 64 operation IDs. And common operations occupy 
> first segment.

It probably makes sense not to re-use arch-specific dom0_op numbers
(though there wouldn't be any real abiguity), but I'm not sure its worth
trying to carve up the number space like this.

I guess there's an argument for renaming the arch-specific dom0 ops to
put X86 or IA64 in the name, but I don't think there's any real
confusion. Perhaps we should split out arch definitions from dom0_ops.h?


I'm inclined not to do much in the way of rearranging until post 3.0.
After 3.0 I'd like to rename dom0_ops altogether, and implement finer
grained delegation of control operations. 

Comments?

Ian 

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