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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:54:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393620863.4052.2.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530B9FB6.6000909@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 20:38 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> On 24.02.2014 19:39, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> >> And that commit was reverted a week later in grub commit
> >> faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 ("Revert grub-file usage in
> >> grub-mkconfig."), see
> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub.d/20_linux_xen.in?id=faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 .
> >>
> >> That commit has no explanation (other than its one line summary). So
> >> we're left guessing why this was done. Luckily, it doesn't matter here,
> >> because the test for CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is superfluous.
> > 
> > How about we ask Vladimir?
> > 
> > Vladimir - could you shed some light on it? Thanks!
> > 
> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not present on Linux even though it
> should be. The test was removed to accomodate this.

It's not clear to me what this means, sorry. 

> The usage of grub-file was removed because it wasn't release-ready.

I see.

Thanks.


Paul Bolle


      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-28 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-17 12:23 [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-17 13:03 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-17 14:43   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-18 10:14     ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-18 13:07       ` [PATCH v2] " Paul Bolle
2014-02-18 13:13         ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-24 18:51         ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-02-24 18:39       ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-24 19:38         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-02-28 20:54           ` Paul Bolle [this message]

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