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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:28:20 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> x86 has a number of historical assumptions, both in kernel and in 
> userspace (consider dmidecode!)  Trying to go against them is a losing 
> proposition, *AND* a headache for the maintainers, which will have to 
> consider "oh yes, and Xen does this dumb thing which goes against what 
> all the hardware does."

Ahem.  "Hardware does this dumb thing that Xen avoids".  kthxbye ;)

    J
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