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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] i386: Remove non-PAE

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] i386: Remove non-PAE hypervisor build target.
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 21:57:19 +0100
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On 8/5/08 21:49, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:04:59PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
>>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Xen patchbot-unstable wrote:
>>> 
>>>> i386: Remove non-PAE hypervisor build target.
>>> 
>>> Can you explain this a bit further?
>> 
>> It hasn't been regularly tested for some time, it is not shipped by any
>> vendor afaik, and all guest ports with a significant ongoing development
>> effort behind them now support PAE and/or 64-bit modes. Further, a test of
>> the waters on xen-devel back in March did not elicit much of a response in
>> support of non-pae.
> 
> I completely missed this discussion[1] - fair enough.

I should probably have added a reference to that email thread, or summary of
it, in the changeset comments. Apologies for that.

 -- Keir



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