From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/hvmloader: move shared_info to reserved memory area
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:46:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025114645.GA7218@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CCAE730C.42744%keir.xen@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 25, Keir Fraser wrote:
> To be honest, given that the XenPVHVM extensions to Linux won't have been
> tested on such old hypervisors, it wouldn't be a bad thing to bail on
> setting up the extensions when you detect running on a really old Xen
> version (e.g., earlier than 3.4.0) anyway. There's a fair chance of doing
> more harm than good?
I could stick such a check into
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:x86_hyper_xen_hvm->detect, by rearranging the
code of xen_hvm_platform and init_hvm_pv_info. Konrad, what do you
think about that? Recent changes indicate that you did some testing on
3.4 based hosts.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 17:57 [PATCH] tools/hvmloader: move shared_info to reserved memory area Olaf Hering
2012-10-24 19:05 ` Keir Fraser
2012-10-25 7:42 ` Olaf Hering
2012-10-25 7:51 ` Olaf Hering
2012-10-25 11:33 ` Keir Fraser
2012-10-25 11:39 ` Keir Fraser
2012-10-25 11:46 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-10-25 12:10 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-25 12:16 ` Olaf Hering
2012-10-26 11:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-10-26 14:08 ` Olaf Hering
2012-10-26 15:51 ` Olaf Hering
2012-10-26 16:08 ` Keir Fraser
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