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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH][GFW] support windows 2008

To: Kouya Shimura <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH][GFW] support windows 2008
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:38:21 +0200
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Quoting Kouya Shimura <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Tristan,
>
> Here is a patch to support windows 2008 (aka Longhorn).
> I don't know EFI spec well and this patch might do something wrong.
I think this is defined in SAL specs.  I will check.

> But I succeed in installing and running windows 2008 with this patch.
Good news and thank you for this work!

>
> This patch does:
> - pin mapping into tr[0] for IVT
> - handling alt TLB miss. implementing identity mappping.
> - ignoring unaligned reference exception when it is speculated.
Even if not in the spec, this seems harmless.

Tristan.

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