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[Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/7, RFC] x86_64: basic changes for supporting compat

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/7, RFC] x86_64: basic changes for supporting compatibility mode guest
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:16:01 +0200
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This introduces
- a (generic) config setting to turn on compatibility mode support
- support to load a Dom0 32-bit ELF image on 64-bit
- a compatibility guest mode GDT (requires moving the ring 0
  selectors to different GDT slots), and the respective selector
  handling changes
- some initial code path changes to address the needs of a
  compatibility mode guest

This changes the ABI in adding to vcpu_guest_context - does a change like
this require bumping the ABI version?

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

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