From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] lguest64
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:58:06 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjte9iah.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E97779.3020103@zytor.com>
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 07/19/2013 02:06 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried building lguest to play with it, but was disappointed to find
>> this in the Kconfig:
>>
>> depends on X86_32
>>
>> Why is this [1]? What is so hard about supporting 64-bit machines? I
>> found a five-year old tree that claims to do lguest64 [2], but didn't
>> investigate further.
>>
>
> Please don't have us deal with another lguest unless there is a use case
> for it. We want to reduce pvops and pvops users, not increase them...
>
> -hpa
Yes, the subset of x86-64 machines for which there isn't hardware
virtualization support is pretty uninteresting.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-19 9:06 [QUERY] lguest64 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-19 17:42 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-19 20:36 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-08-01 17:22 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-01 13:04 ` Alex Elsayed
2013-07-23 1:28 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-07-31 9:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2013-07-31 12:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 13:07 ` Mike Rapoport
2013-07-31 13:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 14:32 ` Mike Rapoport
2013-08-01 2:12 ` Rusty Russell
2013-08-02 14:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 13:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-31 13:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-02 19:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-08-04 12:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-05 16:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-08-05 16:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-05 17:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-31 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-01 7:18 ` Mike Rapoport
2013-08-08 19:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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