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 15:08:19 +0200 Message-ID: <200807281508.19428.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 15:00:35 Keir Fraser wrote: > On 28/7/08 13:52, "Christoph Egger" wrote: > >> Quite the opposite. By doing it in your own header files you can speci= fy > >> 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. > > The interfaces (both the API exposed by public/ headers; and the ABI they > describe) won't change. At least not in a way that isn't backward > compatible. Or we'd be breaking old OSes all the time! Haven't those got broken with the removal of non-PAE support? :) 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