[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: making the PVH 64bit ABI as stable
On 02/06/15 16:11, Roger Pau Monnà wrote: > Hello, > > The document describing the PVH interface was committed 9 months ago > [1], and since then there hasn't been any change regarding the > interface. PVH is still missing features in order to have feature parity > with pure PV, mainly: > > - DomU miration support. > - PCI passthrough support. > - 32bit support. > - AMD support. > > AFAICT however none of these features are going to change the current > ABI. PCI passthrough might expand it, by adding new hypercalls, but I > don't think this should prevent us from marking the current ABI as > stable. ARM for example doesn't have PCI passthrough yet or migration > support, but the ABI has been marked as stable. > > To that end, I would like to request the 64bit PVH ABI to be marked as > stable for DomUs. This is needed so external projects (like PVH support > for grub2) can progress. This would be exceedingly short sighted until 32bit and AMD support are present. Therefore, -1 from me, especially as I am not convinced that 32bit will get in without ABI changes. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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