From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 23/23] xen/README: add compiler and binutils versions for RISC-V64
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:59:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3d18aff-64e1-4620-b538-e026afd4af17@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <751bc87b-c8a4-4905-92bf-fc50f9102d4a@suse.com>
On 29.02.2024 12:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 29.02.2024 11:23, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 29/02/2024 07:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> (And
>>> no, upgrading the ancient distros on that ancient hardware is not an
>>> option for me.)
>>
>> May I ask why? Is it because newer distros don't support your HW?
>
> Because as part of my job I also need to support ancient versions of
> Xen on ancient distros. Since I need to keep those around, it makes
> sense to me to then also test modern Xen there (every now and then, as
> said, and not really extensively).
Oh, and - because upgrading has proven to take quite a bit of time, if
also accounting for all the follow-on work that needs doing when parts
of the upgrade didn't quite go as intended. Whether newer distros
formally don't support such old hardware is just another possible
factor.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-29 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-26 17:38 [PATCH v5 00/23] [PATCH v4 00/30] Enable build of full Xen for RISC-V Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 01/23] xen/riscv: disable unnecessary configs Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 02/23] xen/riscv: use some asm-generic headers Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-27 7:35 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 03/23] xen/riscv: introduce nospec.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-27 7:38 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-28 9:59 ` Oleksii
2024-02-29 13:49 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 14:01 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 16:09 ` Oleksii
2024-02-29 16:27 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 04/23] xen/asm-generic: introduce generic fls() and flsl() functions Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-29 13:54 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 14:03 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 14:08 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 16:17 ` Oleksii
2024-02-29 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 16:25 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-03-01 9:15 ` Oleksii
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 05/23] xen/asm-generic: introduce generic find first set bit functions Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 06/23] xen/asm-generic: introduce generic ffz() Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 07/23] xen/asm-generic: introduce generic hweight64() Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 08/23] xen/asm-generic: introduce generic non-atomic test_*bit() Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 09/23] xen/riscv: introduce bitops.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 10/23] xen/riscv: introduces acrquire, release and full barriers Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-05 7:42 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 11/23] xen/riscv: introduce cmpxchg.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-06 14:56 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 10:35 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 10:46 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 11:01 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 11:11 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 12:28 ` Oleksii
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 12/23] xen/riscv: introduce io.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-06 14:13 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 13:01 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 13:24 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 13:44 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 15:32 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 16:21 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 17:14 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 20:49 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 20:54 ` Oleksii
2024-03-08 7:26 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-08 10:14 ` Oleksii
2024-03-08 11:49 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-08 11:52 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-08 12:17 ` Oleksii
2024-03-08 12:54 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-08 7:18 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 13/23] xen/riscv: introduce atomic.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-06 15:31 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-07 13:30 ` Oleksii
2024-03-07 15:40 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 14/23] xen/riscv: introduce monitor.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 15/23] xen/riscv: add definition of __read_mostly Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 16/23] xen/riscv: add required things to current.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH v5 17/23] xen/riscv: add minimal stuff to page.h to build full Xen Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 18/23] xen/riscv: add minimal stuff to processor.h " Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-05 8:05 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-05 17:34 ` Oleksii
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 19/23] xen/riscv: add minimal stuff to mm.h " Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-05 8:17 ` Jan Beulich
2024-03-05 16:46 ` Oleksii
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 20/23] xen/riscv: introduce vm_event_*() functions Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 21/23] xen/rirscv: add minimal amount of stubs to build full Xen Oleksii Kurochko
2024-03-05 8:40 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 22/23] xen/riscv: enable full Xen build Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-26 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 23/23] xen/README: add compiler and binutils versions for RISC-V64 Oleksii Kurochko
2024-02-27 7:55 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-28 17:03 ` Oleksii
2024-02-28 22:58 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-28 23:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-29 17:00 ` Oleksii
2024-02-29 7:58 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 10:23 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 11:56 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 11:59 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2024-02-29 12:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-29 12:17 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 12:32 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 12:51 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 13:44 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 14:07 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-29 14:14 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 17:43 ` Stefano Stabellini
2024-02-29 12:27 ` Julien Grall
2024-02-29 16:54 ` Oleksii
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