Re: What was the reason for enabling Xen on all i386 kernels?
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:47:25PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Because it is not supported.
OK, that is a good reason.
> The Xen support only adds something, it does not remove something which
> was there before.
I was under the impression it changed some of the ways to access
physical addresses. I guess for the dom0 kernel that wouldn't really
make sense though.
> Please define "broken". If they would be broken by paravirt support,
> they would already fail to work with 2.6.24. Please take a look at
> #481485.
OK, I will try and work from that.
And broken as in "it won't compile". :)
> Please show evidence that the support breaks something except random
> scripts for non-free software.
So xen support should not break any driver? If that is the case, I will
continue to try and fix the compile problem and try and make it build
and then see if it does work. Certainly everything I found about it so
far indicated that the xen changes would break driver access to the
hardware in some cases, but I guess believing random stuff on the
internet could be a bad idea. I am willing to try fixing it some more.
--
Len Sorensen
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