Re: [PATCH][XEN] PV blk backend: Make 32bit PV guests work on 64bit PV Dom0

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>]

On Monday 28 July 2008 14:36:49 Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 28/7/08 13:31, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 28 July 2008 14:23:00 Keir Fraser wrote:
> >> Just do the same as we do in Linux and put these defs in your NetBSD
> >> private header space.
> >
> > That sounds like "All OS's have to go the Linux way" (which also includes
> > Xen's Minios (stubdom))  instead of "fix it once and for all".
>
> Quite the opposite. By doing it in your own header files you can specify
> the structure names and so on exactly how you would like them to be for the
> particular OS concerned.

I'm concerned about having/keeping the API/ABI the same between all OS's and
not about their implementation.

Christoph


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