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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: feature flags use
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:01:12 +0100
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>Works the other way around:  The flags are xen-specfic, not guest
>specific.  The guest has to check whenever xen supports pgd's above 4GB
>before placing them there.

By itself, this makes sense, but what's the purpose of the guest advertising
it supports this via the feature string then?

Jan