From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirt-ops VMI / Xen / lrustyvisor merge status
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:24:56 -0800
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Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I think the only other open issue we had was how to cleanly do the
> sysenter disable for Xen.  We want it on for sure, and so does native,
> but Xen needs to disable it.

You want sysenter as the preferred way of getting into the kernel?

>   This could be tied into some nosegneg stuff, I can't remember
> exactly if they were separate patches or what happened to the nosegneg
> stuff.  Presumedly, Xen still needs that as well?

Yep.  At the moment it's a note compiled into the vsyscall .so
controlled by CONFIG_XEN.

    J