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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: PATCH: new SIOEMU interface

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Subject:	[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: PATCH: new SIOEMU interface
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:29:29 -0600
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On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 07:11 +0100, tgingold@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch changes the SIOEMU callback interface.  The old method was
> flawed: the callback data were lost if occuring during an hypercall.
> 
> This new interface is not backward compatible.  I think it is not an issue
> since sioemu is not widely deployed.
> 
> As currently committed, the sioemu fw should work with this new interface
> (e1000 is even available).
> But I still have one xen patch to submit before generating a binary fw
> for sioemu.

   Applied.  I agree, I don't think we need to worry about sioemu
backwards compatibility just yet.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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