Isaku Yamahata wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:34:22AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> dom0 needs the metaphysical addresses or nothing can work as we use the >> node info for talking to the PCI controllers, memory controllers (IPIs >> and TLB flushes) etc. > > I don't understand why 'must match' here. > dom0 can convert psudo(meta) phsyical address into > machine physical address, then it can get node id.
It can, but if I take that approach, I am going to have to rewrite a significant part of dom0, it's not realistic to do so. It would affect memory management, PCI & IO code etc etc. In addition we want this feature when we want to support multiple dom0's in the future. Cheers, Jes _______________________________________________ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
