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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XEN] PV blk backend: Make 32bit PV guests work o

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XEN] PV blk backend: Make 32bit PV guests work on 64bit PV Dom0
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:36:49 +0100
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On 28/7/08 13:31, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 28 July 2008 14:23:00 Keir Fraser wrote:
>> Just do the same as we do in Linux and put these defs in your NetBSD
>> private header space.
> 
> That sounds like "All OS's have to go the Linux way" (which also includes
> Xen's Minios (stubdom))  instead of "fix it once and for all".

Quite the opposite. By doing it in your own header files you can specify the
structure names and so on exactly how you would like them to be for the
particular OS concerned.

 -- Keir



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