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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: 32-on-64: pvfb issue
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:10:59 +0000
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On 19/1/07 09:54, "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@suse.de> wrote:

>> Make tools
>> write a default value for pv guests for backward compat.
> 
> Here is a one-line fix to make the pvfb frontend clear the shared page.
>  Can this go into both 3.0.4 and unstable please?

How about a patch to clear the page *and* write a newly-defined protocol
field? Or are you still planning to kludge the bitwidth check in the
backend?

 -- Keir