From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1U8qys-0002jH-GA for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:39:59 +0000 Message-ID: <51275909.5020801@citrix.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:39:53 +0000 From: David Vrabel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3 References: <1361469460-18771-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <512736DA02000078000C038C@nat28.tlf.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <512736DA02000078000C038C@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Daniel Kiper , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "Eric W. Biederman" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" On 22/02/13 08:14, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 21.02.13 at 18:57, 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. >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec