From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Xen x86 32-bit hypervisor end of life after 4.2
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:11:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC7237F3.3E2CD%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
Folks,
With 64-bit support well established in the x86 world these days, the number
of x86 production environments that cannot run a 64-bit hypervisor is pretty
much nil. Maintaining the 32-bit x86 port, and implementing new features for
it, is an ongoing development burden which could be more usefully directed
elsewhere. Therefore, 32-bit x86 will be considered obsolete in the 4.3
development branch, and removed.
32-bit x86 will continue to be maintained and supported (insofar as it has
been recently) in the supported stable branches: 3.4, 4.1, and 4.2.
Furthermore, 32-bit guests (including 32-bit PV guests) will continue to be
supported on the 64-bit hypervisor, as they always have been.
Regards,
Keir & The Xen Team
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 11:11 Keir Fraser [this message]
2012-09-10 14:00 ` [ANNOUNCE] Xen x86 32-bit hypervisor end of life after 4.2 Keir Fraser
2012-09-10 14:16 ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-10 14:23 ` Keir Fraser
2012-09-10 17:09 ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-10 17:24 ` Keir Fraser
2012-09-11 10:27 ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-11 10:44 ` Keir Fraser
2012-09-11 10:51 ` Jan Beulich
2012-09-11 10:57 ` Keir Fraser
2012-09-10 16:24 ` David Vrabel
2012-09-10 16:55 ` Keir Fraser
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