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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver.
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Blue Swirl, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 20:26:42 +0300, a écrit :
> >  +    RING_PUSH_RESPONSES_AND_CHECK_NOTIFY(&blkdev->rings.common, send_notify);
> 
> EUGLY_LONG_NAME_WITH_ALL_CAPS

That's unfortunately the xen API.

> Why different protocols for i386 and x86_64?

Because the xen block shared structures have been defined at API level,
not ABI, so they differ.

> Would I need to add Sparc32 and Sparc64 versions some day?

Should there be a Xen port to these archs, yes.

Samuel