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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] [LIBXC] add architecture-specific parameter

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] [LIBXC] add architecture-specific parameter to xc_linux_build()
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:14:30 -0500
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On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:16 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> Actually I'm not sure about this approach at all. Couldn't specifying the
> open firmware tree be done separately from the build (e.g., just after)?
> Maybe hooked off the new proposed 'platform object' in xend. Xc_linux_build
> is really ugly enough already: I think in future we would like to split
> xc_linux_build up into smaller API functions, even for x86, and that the
> patch you propose goes in the opposite direction to this.

That direction certainly seems like a good one to me.

In this case, we need to load the device tree into the domain's memory
and pass its address in a register (i.e. via xc_vcpu_setcontext).
Currently it doesn't look like xc_vcpu_setcontext is exposed to python
for us to use. What would you like to see here?

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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