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

[Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Murray <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx>; xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 12:10
> Subject: 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.
> 

Thanks. Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps off-topic for dev, but are there 
any advantages to running a 32 bit dom0 as in this configuration?


> -George
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