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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.15 - release status, branching tomorrow


  • To: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.k.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:00:17 +0000
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On 24/03/2021 11:48, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
>> The revert seems unattractive.  Your suggested command line option
>> sounds like a good workaround to me.  Under the circumstances it seems
>> like it should default to the old behaviour, as I think you are
>> suggesting.
>>
>> So I am be inclined to ask if you, Jan, would prepare a patch
>> implementing such an option.  Anyone else have any opinions ?
> I've replied to Jan's patch as well. IMHO having the option but
> leaving things broken without the option set is a bad user experience
> as we don't have a way to tell the user when the option is needing to
> be set during install. Asking users to see if Xen crashes during boot
> is a bad user experience as part of the setup. There should be an
> automatic fallback to try enabling the legacy option if things don't
> work without it.

I agree.  I will try to make a fix with does the right thing and doesn't
require users to play blind guesswork to get their system booting.

~Andrew



 


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