Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] architecture-specific ELF header checking

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>]

> For libxc we probably need per-arch subdirectories for arch-specific
> source files. There's all sorts of intermingled arch-specific code in
> tools/libxc right now. We could then have arch-specific implementations
> of xc_elf_check_header() or somesuch in tools/libxc/<arch>, like we do
> for Xen's domain0 elf-parsing code. That would be cleaner and give more
> per-arch flexibility.

btw: for the elf parser it is probably useful to switch around using
-Dsomething, so one can simply compile the elf loader twice.  We'll need
something like that in case we'll support both 32bit + 64bit guests in a
64bit hypervisor.  With my domain builder rewrite it should be easy to
do that ;)

cheers,

  Gerd

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
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