linux-kernel - Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches?

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 16:56:37 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, jeremy@...p.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	gregkh@...e.de, okir@...e.de
Subject: Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches?

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:30 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> 
> We need these hooks but as I wrote above, they are
> architecture-specific and we should handle them with the architecture
> abstraction (as we handle similar problems) however we can't due to
> dom0 support.

I don't understand this. What exactly about the dom0 support patch
prevents future abstraction here?

The dom0 hooks would simply move into the per-arch abstractions as
appropriate, wouldn't they?

Ian.
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