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Re: Path to kmods



Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:37:42PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, what is the machdep.booted_kernel sysctl set to on a 
>> Xen Dom0 system? (Assuming that's the scenario you have in mind)
> 
> To nothing because the $%^$#^$#%^ Xen developers just drop the data
> before passing it down to the Dom0 kernel. Hacking that out makes the
> linux kernel oops...

Not dropping the first argument makes the start_info different to
the DomU.
However, they would accept an additional flag for the start_info
to mark the presence of the "new" field.

Christoph


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