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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Create XEN_DOMCTL_set_opt_featu

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Create XEN_DOMCTL_set_opt_feature
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:00:45 +0000
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On 28/11/07 18:39, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> wrote:

>    You're right, thanks for bringing it to my attention that storing it
> in an hvm_param is simply unnecessary.  If we add the guest_os_type
> config option as per the new patch below, and still add the
> XEN_DOMCTL_set_opt_feature call, everything else can be done in
> architecture code.  I'll make a pyxc binding to an xc_ia64_set_os_type
> that gets passed self.guest_os_type and makes use of set_opt_feature.
> This avoids munging the string into an integer entirely and keeps
> guest_os_type out of Xen.  Does this look more reasonable?  Please also
> apply this and the original XEN_DOMCTL_set_opt_feature patch if so.

Yes, this sounds fine to me.

 -- Keir



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