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<20041118132233.GG17532@wotan.suse.de> From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:26:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20041118132233.GG17532@wotan.suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:22:33 +0100") Message-ID: <52vfc3kr13.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: roland@topspin.com Subject: Re: Xen 2.0 VMM patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:07 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on eddore) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Nov 2004 17:26:06.0552 (UTC) FILETIME=[AFBD4580:01C4CD93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 15 Andi> Overall I think it's a bad idea to have four different x86 Andi> like architectures in the tree. Especially since there will Andi> be likely more hypervisors over time. i386 and x86-64 make Andi> some sense because 64bit is a natural boundary, but Andi> extending it elsewhere doesn't scale very well. Is there any possibility of Xen someday being ported to some non-x86 architecture (eg ppc64 or ia64)? - Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/