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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:44:31 +0000
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On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 22:04 +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
> Attached is a tarball with a helper library for reading host ACPI and
> SMBIOS firmware and creating firmware files that can be used with the
> HVM firmware passthrough patches I submitted. I used it in my testing
> of the patches and planned to use it later when we moved to a new Xen
> version. This library was requested by a few people - I hope you find
> it useful.

Would it make sense / are you planning to integrate this into the Xen
tree as well? I'm not sure if it fits into an existing library e.g.
libxenguest if it would be a separate library.

Ian.