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[Xen-devel] Xenheap disappearance: (was: xen_phys_start for 32b)

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] Xenheap disappearance: (was: xen_phys_start for 32b)
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:17:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Xenheap will disappear entirely on x86/64 in future. So long 
> term is that
> i386 and x86/64 are actually to diverge significantly in this area.

What's the ETA on this?  I've got a big patch in preparation built
on 3.3. that does gymnastics to get around xenheap limitations
and have been holding off updating it to unstable, hoping for
this xenheap change (to avoid re-re-duplicating the wheel).

Thanks,
Dan

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