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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: PROPOSAL: Remove 32-bit x86 host support in 4.2 development branch
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:21:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9A7C96F.14FE2%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)

Folks,

There's been discussion in the past about eventually removing support for
32-bit x86 in the development branch of the hypervisor. The reasons being:
 * It takes developer effort to maintain and test
 * Most repackagers are supplying 64-bit only hypervisor binary these days
 * 32-bit target is not supported in any case for various new hypervisor
features (e.g., memory paging, memory sharing, memory access trapping)
 * 64-bit support has been standard in all mainstream x86 processors for
about the last 5 years. With a 64-bit processor there is no reason to run
the 32-bit hypervisor, as the 64-bit hypervisor supports all 32-bit guests.

With 4.1 branched I'd like to raise this topic again. Does anyone have a
strong argument for keeping the 32-bit x86 target alive?

 Thanks,
 Keir

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-17 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17 14:21 Keir Fraser [this message]
2011-03-17 17:11 ` PROPOSAL: Remove 32-bit x86 host support in 4.2 development branch Ian Jackson
2011-03-17 17:23   ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-17 17:25     ` Ian Jackson
2011-03-21  8:13   ` Christian Tramnitz
2011-03-21 10:58     ` [Xen-devel] " Alan Cox

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