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Thu, 29 Feb 2024 03:59:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:59:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 23/23] xen/README: add compiler and binutils versions for RISC-V64 Content-Language: en-US From: Jan Beulich To: Julien Grall Cc: Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Oleksii Kurochko References: <73a38d85-0798-4cfa-8625-0f8c9e05b2a3@suse.com> <80fb8091-9a26-40a4-b2e7-371df9411861@xen.org> <889b132b-b92e-465b-94af-4e4133e4c297@suse.com> <52188e88-374c-449f-a71c-bfce9b6d07f4@xen.org> <751bc87b-c8a4-4905-92bf-fc50f9102d4a@suse.com> Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: <751bc87b-c8a4-4905-92bf-fc50f9102d4a@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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