Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions

2016-03-22 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 22.03.16 at 15:06, wrote: > On 3/15/16 10:34 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> None of these features are interesting for Xen to use, or to be advertised > to >> guests. Doing so identifies further areas of code which can be removed now >> that 32bit support has been dropped. >> >> IA64 has a

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions

2016-03-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 3/15/16 10:34 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > None of these features are interesting for Xen to use, or to be advertised to > guests. Doing so identifies further areas of code which can be removed now > that 32bit support has been dropped. > > IA64 has a sole user in microcode_intel.c. While it is

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions

2016-03-16 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 16/03/16 07:53, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:34:57PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> None of these features are interesting for Xen to use, or to be advertised to >> guests. Doing so identifies further areas of code which can be removed now >> that 32bit support has

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions

2016-03-16 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:34:57PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: > None of these features are interesting for Xen to use, or to be advertised to > guests. Doing so identifies further areas of code which can be removed now > that 32bit support has been dropped. > > IA64 has a sole user in microcode_

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
None of these features are interesting for Xen to use, or to be advertised to guests. Doing so identifies further areas of code which can be removed now that 32bit support has been dropped. IA64 has a sole user in microcode_intel.c. While it is plausible for a 32bit x86 hypervisor to get there v