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Message-ID: <4A20542A.8020407@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 14:31:22 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@...citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...citrix.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen is a feature

Andi Kleen wrote:
> George Dunlap <george.dunlap@...citrix.com> writes:
>
> cc list from hell trimmed. 
>
>   
>> allowing Linux to run as dom0 *is* improving Linux.  The lack of dom0
>> support is at this moment making life more difficult for a huge number
>> of Linux users who use Xen, including Mozilla, Debian, and Amazon.
>> Adding dom0 support would make Linux even more useful to a wide
>> variety of people not using Xen at the moment.
>>     
>
> Perhaps one way to address this problem would be to make the Dom0
> interface less intrusive for the host OS?
>   

I'm certainly not deaf to criticism along those lines, and I'm looking 
at ways of cleaning up/decoupling those interactions.

But my frustration arises from the fact that there's been a total stall 
on merging any of the pieces, even the ones which are either 
uncontroversial, or purely xen-internal changes.

    J
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