Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH 1/5] Add guest_os_type config option

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 14:29 +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote:
> Hi Alex:
>       Thanks for your complement. 
>       My concern is the u64 type is not enough if length of OS name is more
> than eight words. But we may use abbreviation to deal
> with it. So this is ok for me.

Hi Wing,

   Right, the code will truncate to 8 characters, but it's up to us to
come up with abbreviations that fit in 8 chars.  For instance if we need
to differentiate Windows Server 2003 from 2008, we can decide to use
"win03" and "win08".  I think the benefit is there's no static array
that needs to be updated to implement new architecture specific OS
strings.  Thanks for reviewing.

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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