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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] RAS(Part II)--MCA enalbing in XEN

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] RAS(Part II)--MCA enalbing in XEN
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:03:15 +0000
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On 16/02/2009 14:18, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> IMO, any design change should be discussed first and not changed
> silently, since this will confuse everyone and noone will know
> what is the right thing to do in Xen and in Dom0 and this
> in turn will lead to error prone, unmaintainable code in both
> Xen and in Dom0

I certainly think we should have a shared approach for x86 machine-check
handling, rather than completely different architectures for AMD and Intel.
Fortunately Sun are an interested and active third party regarding this
feature. I'll be interested in their opinion.

 -- Keir



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