linux-kernel - Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)

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Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:58:23 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	<tony.luck@...el.com>, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)

>> > If Jan actually had a goal with that except making the code utterly
>> > unreadable he should try again with small patches that are well
>> > explained and do one thing at a at time.  (And cane be reviewed an
>> > improved on if needed.
>> 
>> As the topic says - the goal is to support Xen. 
>
>Xen the linux guest
>or
>Xen the hypervisor?
>
>if it's the later, why on earth would we want to uglyfy linux for it?
>(arguably it holds in the former case as well)

The former.

Jan


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