From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect
	hypercalls	through	ahypercall transfer page.
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:04:11 -0500
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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