>>> On 16.08.18 at 08:32, <christopher.w.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: > >> In the Xen x86 community call we have been discussing whether anyone >> really is depending on 32-bit PV guests. We'd like to evaluate whether >> anyone would see problems with: >> >> - deprecating 32-bit PV guest support in Xen, meaning that we'd >> eventually switch to support 32-bit PV guests only via PV-shim from >> Xen 4.12 or 4.13 >> >> - dropping 32-bit PV support from upstream Linux kernel, resulting in >> current 32-bit PV guests no longer being able to upgrade to the newest >> kernel version any longer >> >> And related to that: >> >> - is there any Linux distribution still shipping 32-bit PV-capable >> systems? >> >> - what about BSD? Is 32-bit PV support important there? >> > > > Juergen - just to be very clear about the scope here: > * would this proposal affect the ability to use a 32-bit dom0?
If the Dom0 is to be PV - yes, of course. For the time being there's no complete PVH Dom0 support, so if 32-bit is needed here, PV is for now indeed the only option. > * is this proposal to affect x86 only or also for ARM? There's no PV on ARM. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
