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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3: x86 32 bit code removed or depreciated?



On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 10.07.13 at 12:23, Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have seen in various places that x86 32 bit support would be dropped for
>> 4.3 and the only mention in the release material is a one-liner in the "Xen
>> 4.3 Feature List" in the wiki
>>
>>       * Remove 32-bit and ia64
>> I know a lot of code was removed for ia64 because there are comments to the
>> effect in the commit statistics, but no mention of 32-bit/x86.
>>
>> Has the code been actively removed, or is still there but depreciated?
>
> I'm sorry, but why do you ask here rather than checking the sources
> (xen/arch/x86/x86_32/ is gone, just to name a simple and obvious
> example) or the commit log (5d1181a5 "xen: Remove x86_32 build
> target." is pretty explicit I would think).

Just to be clear, this is the 32-bit *hypervisor* which was removed.
32-bit tools in a 32-bit dom0 still work.

 -George

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