Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] RFC/patch portability: split kvm_vm_ioctl v2

Carsten Otte
2007-10-26T08:41:14Z

Carsten Otte wrote:
> That's why memory allocation/preparation needs to be arch dependent:
> i386 needs a memory layout different from userspace page table due to
> your argument, and s390 needs to use the userspace page table due to
> hardware features we want to exploit.
> As Xiantao pointed out, x86 and ia64 can share the same memory setup
> code. But s390 and ppc don't. Therefore, I vote for putting it into
> x86 for now, and come up with an approach to share between x86 and
> ia64 later on.
After reading Izik's idea: Maybe we should go Izik's way, and have an
i386 special case that we can deprecate later on?

so long,
Carsten