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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make new PCI device probe work with older
	hypervisors
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:07:15 +0100
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On 7/7/08 16:04, "Espen Skoglund" <espen.skoglund@netronome.com> wrote:

>> If old dom0 kernels will not work with new Xen on any system
>> supporting VT-d, even when VT-d features are not going to be used
>> (e.g., for device passthrough), then that's not really acceptable.
> 
>> If you have to upgrade your dom0 kernel to make use of new features
>> which VT-d enables, that's perfectly acceptable.
> 
> Ok.  In that case you'd better revert 17975:a3e4840b1584 and make sure
> that the PCI device enumration is never taken out of Xen.

If we revert just that one changeset, will the other patches (including the
new hypercalls) still work okay?

 -- Keir