Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: making the PVH 64bit ABI as stableo

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 03/06/15 a les 14.08, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>>> On 03.06.15 at 12:02, <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> With my x86 maintainer hat on, the following is an absolute minimum set
>>> of prerequisite for PVH.
>>>
>>> * 32bit support
>>
>> Could you please explain why 32bit is important to get PVH out of tech
>> preview? I don't see 32 bit OSes as an important use case. Maybe there
>> is more behind it that I cannot see.
> 
> The primary reason was named before: 32-bit support will likely
> end up changing the way 64-bit guests get launched.

I can work on the new boot ABI, even if it's just a design document now,
but the actual implementation needs to be done on top of the 32-bit
support series.

Boris, do you think you could send an early RFC of your 32-bit support
series in a couple of weeks at most?

Roger.


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