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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH]mini-os: big-endian mini-os on ia64

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH]mini-os: big-endian mini-os on ia64
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:07:42 +0000
Cc: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Grzegorz Milos <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > What I want to have is a mini-os, where everybody whith ia64 hardware can
> > build and run a BE mini-os beside LE mini-os (or other domU's) on
> > xen-ia64 hypervisor. If you say at this point: no interrest for such a
> > thing, than we can stop this discussion here.

Is there going to be a port of a full-featured BE OS to Xen/IA64?  Would 
existing OSes be able to be paravirtualised, or would it need to be HVM?

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
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