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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Mini-OS on ia64


  • To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:05:40 +0200
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Am Montag, 24. Juli 2006 16:31 schrieben Sie:
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:12 +0200, Dietmar Hahn wrote:
> > > As far as I know nobody is working on it.
> >
> > OK, then I will start.
>
>    Thanks Dietmar.  I think this is something we need to watch closely
> so that ia64 can be ready should mini-os start being used for fully
> virtualized domains.
>
> > At the moment I have running a rudimentary trap handler for the
> > physically addresses (start_info, bootinfo and console page) and the
> > event handler for timer and console events.
> > Are there any guidelines to get in the sources?
>
>    I imagine you'll have to do some re-architecture of the code to allow
> ia64 to fit cleanly into the existing code.  The might mean making
> architecture specific sub-directories under extras/mini-os and moving
> the existing architecture specific files under them.  That should
> probably be coordinated on xen-devel, but please keep xen-ia64-devel in
> the loop.  When you're ready to add the ia64 code, submit that to the
> xen-ia64-devel list.  Thanks,
>
>       Alex

Thanks for your comments.
I will ask for re-architecture the mini-os code on xen-devel first.

Dietmar.

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