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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PATCH (and RFC): new dom0 hypercall

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PATCH (and RFC): new dom0 hypercall: DOM0_DOMAIN_SETUP
From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:43:55 +0200
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Le Lundi 19 Juin 2006 16:35, Keir Fraser a écrit :
> On 19 Jun 2006, at 15:22, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >    Do you have an comments on this new hypercall Tristan is proposing?
> > We have a patch pending in xen/ia64 that makes use of this new
> > hypercall
> > as a first step towards domain save/restore.  Thanks,
>
> Yes, we need something like it for proper HVM setup on x86 too. Leaving
> it until VCPU0 setcontext is not good.
>
> I'd like the patch modified as follows:
>   * Change flag name to XEN_DOMAINSETUP_hvm_guest (explicitly in Xen
> namespace; more the style of other flags added recently; not VMX
> specific).
>   * Place the final two fields of the struct inside ifdef __ia64__.
Why not defining an arch-dependant struct for adding more fields to this 
structure ?  (I prefer to do that early than breaking compatibility later).

Tristan.

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