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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>, kexec@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org

Hi David,

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:06:49PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> The series adds support for the new hypercall ABI which should be
> provided by Xen 4.3.  Images are loaded into Xen directly with no
> kernel involvement.
> 
> Do not apply until the hypervisor side patches are applied to Xen.

Please let me know when you are ready for these to be applied
by reposting them.

> Patch 1 is unrelated but kexec wouldn't work for me without it. Not
> sure why I had problems, perhaps a toolstack specific issue?
> 
> Patch 2 makes libxc 4.3 mandatory for Xen support.
> 
> Patch 3-4 removes a use of /proc/iomem in favour of libxc.
> 
> Patch 5 adds the support for loading, unloading, and exec'ing an image
> in Xen.
> 
> This series explicitly drops support for older version of libxc/Xen as
> supporting kexec on these hypervisors requires kernel support that
> will never be available upstream.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Patch from Don Sultz: use libxc for vmcoreinfo.
> - Use xc_get_max_cpus() to get number of PCPUs.
> - Enable unload and exec of images.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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