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To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>

Subject: Re: the bouyer-xeni386 branch

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:48:24 +0000


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:34:12PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm almost done merging xen support back in arch/i386, in the same way it
> was done for amd64 Xen supoort (there's much, much less duplicate code this
> way). There's only spl.S and vector.S remaining, which I hope to handle this
> evening, as well as reworking a bit the xen/i386 config files to match amd64
> (especially, introduce a arch/xen/include/i386 directory and move some files
> here).

When looking at the amd64 locore.S and vector.S I found that they were
largely unreadably because they seemed to contain the amd64 and xen
implementations of certain functions that were 98% different.
I actually considered splitting out some of the xen code into a different
file!

        David

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David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost



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