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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:52:39 +0200
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> If we were able to rip out all (or most) of paravirt from arch/x86 it 
> would be tempting for other technical reasons - but the patch above
> is well localized.

interesting question is if this would allow us to remove a few of the
paravirt hooks....


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