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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Cross vendor migration ideas
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:20:58 +0200
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> I wonder if patching is an option?

You would need to patch the syscall/sysenter and sysret/sysexit sites, 
as well as the kernel entry points, since the calling conventions are 
dissimilar.  Finding a place to put the stubs would be difficult, at best.

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