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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 12:04:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EA248B.1040001@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D40A5EC@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Ian Pratt wrote:

> 
> Mike, there was some discussion about this and the other new 'feature
> flags' at the OS Ports session at the summit (and in particular in the
> 'linux merge' breakout group).

Thanks, I guess I missed that session.

> The hypercall transfer page is just one of several new feature flags
> that should enable us to have a single xen-ified kernel that is capable
> of running on bare metal, on pae and non-pae hypervisors, 64b

A 32-bit kernel running on a 64-bit xen, for example? So in this case 
xen fills the page with 32-bit hcalls?

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 16:22 Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through ahypercall transfer page Ian Pratt
2006-02-08 17:04 ` Mike D. Day [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-09  0:02 Ian Pratt
2006-02-09  1:15 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-09  1:21   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-08  9:59 Ian Pratt
2006-02-08 15:46 ` Mike D. Day

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