From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tristan Gingold Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] [IA64] fix xencomm_handle_is_null(). Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:44:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20061116204420.GC2568@saphi> References: <1163692542.26011.14.camel@basalt> <1163700499.5529.9.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1163700499.5529.9.camel@lappy> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Alex Williamson Cc: xen-ppc-devel , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Hollis Blanchard , xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:55 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > > I think I'm missing something. Why did IA64 fork xencomm? > > > > I distinctly remember having conversations about sharing the code, which > > is obviously the right thing to do. > > Because Tristan believed the resulting amount of shared code would > actually be very small (1 file) and we wanted to get his work into the > tree before he left Bull. We can still work to share as much as > possible even with the code split. Thanks, Indeed. Only asm/guest_access.h can be easily shared. Feel free to do it. For the other files, sharing can't be easily done. We have slightly changed the interface (we now have 3 ways: inline, mini and area). Furthermore the translators are not very stable: bugs have been fixed recently. Tristan.