From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:39:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51275909.5020801@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512736DA02000078000C038C@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On 22/02/13 08:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 21.02.13 at 18:57, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> That doesn't sound right. How do you envision this to be
> incorporated into existing distros that don't right away switch
> to Xen 4.3?
Eric Bierderman said in an earlier thread[1]:
"Certainly /sbin/kexec will only support the new hypercall once the
support has merged."
David
[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-01/msg00754.html
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 17:57 [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3 David Vrabel
2013-02-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] purgatory: put variables altered by kexec in .data not .bss David Vrabel
2013-02-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] kexec/xen: require libxc from Xen 4.3 David Vrabel
2013-02-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] kexec/xen: use libxc to get location of crash notes David Vrabel
2013-02-26 13:53 ` [Xen-devel] " Don Slutz
2013-02-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] kexec/xen: directly load images images into Xen David Vrabel
2013-03-12 11:29 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-02-22 8:14 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3 Jan Beulich
2013-02-22 11:39 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2013-02-25 18:34 ` Don Slutz
2013-02-25 19:34 ` David Vrabel
2013-03-08 10:30 ` Daniel Kiper
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