On 10/16/17 11:48 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 16/10/17 17:19, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 16.10.17 at 17:45, <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > I've been bitten by this issue several times before, and a fix would be > nice. Same here. > > IMO, the toolstack should not be making assumptions about the initrd, > and shouldn't be touching it. It is the users responsibility to provide > an initrd which its kernel can read. > > Furthermore, leaving the decompression to the kernel reduces the dom0 > attack surface. This. So many this. I do recall bringing this up at a meet up a while back and the concern was breaking someone's workflow. Maybe we can put a warning that the behavior is deprecated for X number of releases before deleting it. -- Doug Goldstein _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
