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


  • To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
  • From: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:11:28 +0100
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Am Montag, 12. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Alex Williamson:
> > 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
As I mentioned, we are working on a BE PV domain, so I'am up for that stuff. 
Thanks for keeping it in the tree.

Dietmar.

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