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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ioemu: Use XEN_TARGET_A

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ioemu: Use XEN_TARGET_ARCH instead of uname -m.
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:01:19 +0000
Cc: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>, Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:21:06PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:

> I'm not sure what particular scenario Bastian was intending to fix, but the
> patch does appear to make sense. qemu-dm is going to run in the target
> system's dom0. So the 'host CPU' type for qemu-dm is related to
> XEN_TARGET_ARCH, not XEN_COMPILE_ARCH nor 'uname -m'. This is a bit
> confusing because for qemu there are three environments to consider: build,
> host and emulated. I do believe that host CPU need not == build CPU.

We also need it (or something like it) to correctly get a 64-bit qemu-dm on
Solaris.

regards
john

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