From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Egger Subject: Re: [PATCH][XEN] PV blk backend: Make 32bit PV guests work on 64bit PV Dom0 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:52:20 +0200 Message-ID: <200807281452.20588.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Monday 28 July 2008 14:36:49 Keir Fraser wrote: > On 28/7/08 13:31, "Christoph Egger" 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 includ= es > > 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 t= he > particular OS concerned. I'm concerned about having/keeping the API/ABI the same between all OS's and not about their implementation. Christoph =2D-=20 AMD Saxony, Dresden, Germany Operating System Research Center Legal Information: AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Sitz (Gesch=E4ftsanschrift): Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Deutschland Registergericht Dresden: HRA 4896 vertretungsberechtigter Komplement=E4r: AMD Saxony LLC (Sitz Wilmington, Delaware, USA) Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer der AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy