From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [patch] domain builder rewrite, guest kexec
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:33:17 +0900
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:01:08PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> > 
> > Wow, that looks pretty impressive indeed.
> > 
> > I wonder how much room there is for consolidating code in your domU
> > kexec patch and the work that Magnus and I have done on dom0/hypervsisor
> > kexec/kdump. 
> 
> I think there isn't much code which an be shared, if any.  kexec'ing a
> domU and the physical machine are two very different problems.  When
> merging both I think the easiest is to simply have two source files
> (machine-kexec-xen[0U].c) and some small stub functions which all either
> the dom0/hypervisor or domU kexec code.

Understood. I guess that in a lot of ways that makes the merge easier.

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