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Re: [Xen-devel] behavioral change due to new elf code

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] behavioral change due to new elf code
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:00:30 +0100
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Jan Beulich wrote:
> But wouldn't that change behavior for domU-s then in an undesirable way?

Why?  dom0 and domU should have the same behavior ...

> Even better, I would think, would be to split the note namespace to
> distinguish
> - general required notes
> - general optional notes
> - dom0 required notes

Point being?  I'm not aware of any dom0-required note.  And I don't
think splitting into required and optional is useful, especially as this
is arch-dependent ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>

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