Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH]: mini-os cleanup and big-endian stuff

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:45 +0100, Dietmar Hahn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the attached patch cleans up a "multiple common ..." in the mini-os and adds 
> a 
> ld flag to avoid this in the future.

   Applied.  Thanks.

> By the way: how about the big-endian stuff in mini-os. After the discussion
> with Keir the mini-os maintainer Gregor Milos opened a way getting that stuff 
> into the common mini-os sources.
> (http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2007-03/msg00003.html)
> If there is an interest on the list, I would try to write some wrappers. 
> Otherwise I would send a patch to cleanup all that big-endian stuff from ia64 
> part of mini-os.

   I think BE support is nice to have around, but as Gregor mentions,
without some test code or a viable BE PV domain it would likely bit rot
very quickly.  Even with test code, someone needs to run it regularly.
If you're up for that, I'll support keeping it in the tree.  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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