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Re: [Xen-devel] Use of XEN_GUEST_HANDLE

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Use of XEN_GUEST_HANDLE
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 23:23:18 +0100
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Mark Williamson wrote:
The guest handle abstraction was put in place to allow PPC (and potentially other) ports to implement a different way of addressing structures that assumed less x86-like architecture behaviour.

ia64 is a current user of this stuff. They just put it all back into paravirt-ops...

   J

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