From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through ahypercall transfer page.
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:46:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EA124B.6020502@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D40A5D7@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ian Pratt wrote:
>> What is this patch about? I mean I can see how it works, but
>> what is the motivation for it?
>
> The primary reason for this patch is that it will enable us to run a
> xenified kernel on bare metal: a 'micro xen' would be loaded by the boot
> loader alongside a xenified kernel image, enabling the kernel to
> effectively run on the baremetal at full native performance (though
> obviously you could only run one kernel on a machine at a time).
This is an elegant feature that would have been better introduced with
the above explanation rather than a patchbot message.
If I missed that discussion, apologies.
Mike Day
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 9:59 Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through ahypercall transfer page Ian Pratt
2006-02-08 15:46 ` Mike D. Day [this message]
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2006-02-08 16:22 Ian Pratt
2006-02-08 17:04 ` Mike D. Day
2006-02-09 0:02 Ian Pratt
2006-02-09 1:15 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-09 1:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
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