Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:42:27AM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 05/12/14 09:54, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 10:49 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote: > >> At 09:20 + on 05 Dec (1417767654), Jan Beulich wrote: > >> On 04.12.14 at 18:25, wrote: > Potential feature flags, base

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread David Vrabel
On 04/12/14 17:25, Tim Deegan wrote: > 'HVM' 'PVH' > 64bit hypercalls Yes Yes > 32bit hypercalls Yes No > Paging assistance Yes Yes > ioreq-servers Yes No Perhaps, but no default on

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 05/12/14 09:54, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 10:49 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote: >> At 09:20 + on 05 Dec (1417767654), Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 04.12.14 at 18:25, wrote: Potential feature flags, based on whiteboard notes at the session. Things that are 'Yes' in both

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 10:49 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote: > At 09:20 + on 05 Dec (1417767654), Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 04.12.14 at 18:25, wrote: > > > Potential feature flags, based on whiteboard notes at the session. > > > Things that are 'Yes' in both columns might not need actual flags :)

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread Tim Deegan
At 09:20 + on 05 Dec (1417767654), Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 04.12.14 at 18:25, wrote: > > Potential feature flags, based on whiteboard notes at the session. > > Things that are 'Yes' in both columns might not need actual flags :) > > > > 'HVM' 'PVH' > > 64bit hyp

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-05 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 04.12.14 at 18:25, wrote: > Potential feature flags, based on whiteboard notes at the session. > Things that are 'Yes' in both columns might not need actual flags :) > > 'HVM' 'PVH' > 64bit hypercalls Yes Yes > 32bit hypercalls Yes No I

[Xen-devel] PVH cleanups after 4.5

2014-12-04 Thread Tim Deegan
Hi all, At the Hackathon in Rackspace we discussed a plan to tidy up the hypervisor side of PVH code so that 'PVH' stops being a separate guest type, becoming instead a HVM guest with various features disabled (and one or two other tweaks). Although I had hoped to work on that in the meantime, v