From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: Cross-arch support for make sync in userspace
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:45:40 +0200
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Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> Hi, Avi
> Currently, make sync in userspace only syncs x86-specific heads from
> kernel source due to hard-coded in Makefile. 
> Do you have plan to provide cross-arch support for that? 

No plans.  I'll apply patches though.  But don't you need kernel changes 
which make it impossible to run kvm-ia64 on older kernels?

> Other archs may
> need it for save/restore :)
>   

Save/restore?  Don't understand.

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