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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] enable port accesses with (almost) full register

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] enable port accesses with (almost) full register context
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:36:15 +0100
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>> Also, I might need a little more clarification on the stack (ab)use for
>> creating stubs.
>
>Just declare a char-array automatic variable, fill it with machine code, and
>call it.

Actually, I rather wanted to do static setup as much as possible and hence
leave only the filling of the actual opcode to be done dynamically (at the
price of inserting one or two nops).

Jan

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