Re: [PATCH 1/3] introduce VMSTATE_U64

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:40:26AM +0900, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/17/2009 04:27 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> This is a patch actually written by Juan, which, according to him,
>> he plans on posting to qemu.git. Problem is that linux defines
>> u64 in a way that is type-uncompatible with uint64_t.
>>
>> I am including it here, because it is a dependency to my patch series
>> that follows.
>>
>>    
>
> Why can't we store these values in qemu as uint64_ts?
Because then we have to redefine the whole structure in qemu.

the proposal is to simply pick the structures directly from linux. I believe
it is much easier, and the versioning scheme in vmstate will help us get 
around any changes they might suffer in the future.

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