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Re: [Xen-devel] 32-on-64: pvfb issue

To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 32-on-64: pvfb issue
From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:06:20 +0100
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I really don't understand why we need this level of generality and
complexity, in particular when a simple hypercall to query a domain's
width would do.  Or a simple, stupid version number in the shared
page.  We'll hardly end up with an unmanageable number of versions.

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