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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: arch/xen is a bad idea
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Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced that maintaining xen/i386 in its current form
>  is going to be as hard as Andi thinks. We already share many
>  files unmodified from i386.

How are they shared?  Inclusion, symlinks, makefile references or
copy-n-paste?