From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [PATCHv1] xen-blkback: default to X86_32 ABI on x86 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:22:50 +0000 Message-ID: <54D495FA.5080600@citrix.com> References: <1423156196-27117-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <20150205194449.GH11646@x230.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YJg3r-0002wM-Lm for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:22:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20150205194449.GH11646@x230.dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , David Vrabel Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 05/02/15 19:44, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 05:09:56PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote: >> Prior to the existance of 64-bit backends using the X86_64 ABI, >> frontends used the X86_32 ABI. These old frontends do not specify the >> ABI and when used with a 64-bit backend do not work. > > Whoa. How old are we talking? I had been using RHEL5 guests and > those work OK (64bit dom0, 32-bit domU). Unfortunately I can't remember and the internal commit is tagged with the wrong bug number. I think it was either sles 9 or rhel 4. David