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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH]mini-os: big-endian mini-os

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH]mini-os: big-endian mini-os on ia64
From: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:25:13 +0100
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Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007 11:51 schrieb Keir Fraser:
> I don;t think we'd have a problem with incorportaing support for ia64-be if
> there's a good reason for it (a better reason than "because it's
> possible").
I understand this.

> > The other way would be building wrappers around all the accesses to
> > domU/hypervisor interfaces and hide the SWAPs there. But this seems a
> > little bit overkill at this stage.
>
> It would be less ugly and I think less prone to missing some open-coded
> accesses. Open-coding the SWAP()s is pretty grim.
Yes I see this. It's simply more work and more code is touched but from the 
design view it's a lot better.
If this is OK for you, I will try this and send a new patch as a proposal.
Thanks.

Dietmar.

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