From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Ostrovsky Subject: Re: Future support of 5-level paging in Xen Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:41:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <605d217b-b1e3-108e-2560-52b35dcb791c@suse.com> <41086fde-d92b-977b-d7b5-5a84afdcb500@citrix.com> <12938f1b-be75-49c2-8f9e-8b3bb91ac7b8@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cF9Fy-0007XT-Nj for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:41:46 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Andrew Cooper , Stefano Stabellini Cc: Juergen Gross , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , "George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com" , Tim Deegan , Ian Jackson , Jan Beulich , xen-devel List-Id: 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