Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through ahypercall transfer page.

["Mike D. Day" <ncmike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Pratt wrote:
> > What is this patch about? I mean I can see how it works, but 
> > what is the motivation for it?
> The primary reason for this patch is that it will enable us to run a
> xenified kernel on bare metal: a 'micro xen' would be loaded by the boot
> loader alongside a xenified kernel image, enabling the kernel to
> effectively run on the baremetal at full native performance (though
> obviously you could only run one kernel on a machine at a time).
This is an elegant feature that would have been better introduced with 
the above explanation rather than a patchbot message.
If I missed that discussion, apologies.

Mike Day



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