From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754447AbZESQC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753079AbZESQCV (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:21 -0400 Received: from queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.33]:65022 "EHLO queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752476AbZESQCV (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 322 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 12:02:20 EDT From: Ian Campbell To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: mingo@elte.hu, jeremy@goop.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, gregkh@suse.de, okir@suse.de In-Reply-To: <20090520002955R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> References: <20090518084052.GD10687@elte.hu> <20090519142626X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090519130300.GB6238@elte.hu> <20090520002955R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:56:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1242748597.22654.44.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 62.200.22.2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ijc@hellion.org.uk Subject: Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hopkins.hellion.org.uk) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=GMTY6ZCfsGoA:10 a=UU1a1liyotcA:10 a=em7P0ZmFGsH9V_GMfAkA:9 a=dj8d0RQMfG2ILESP-w0A:7 a=6udagkCdlg0FwGJlisz1CnVQshgA:4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Mondo Generator - Simple Exploding Man "We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982