On 20/08/18 17:31, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: >> In the Xen x86 community call we have been discussing whether anyone >> really is depending on 32-bit PV guests. We'd like to evaluate whether >> anyone would see problems with: >> >> - deprecating 32-bit PV guest support in Xen, meaning that we'd >> eventually switch to support 32-bit PV guests only via PV-shim from >> Xen 4.12 or 4.13 >> >> - dropping 32-bit PV support from upstream Linux kernel, resulting in >> current 32-bit PV guests no longer being able to upgrade to the newest >> kernel version any longer >> >> And related to that: >> >> - is there any Linux distribution still shipping 32-bit PV-capable >> systems? >> >> - what about BSD? Is 32-bit PV support important there? > > Hello, > Actually, NetBSD only supports PV (there is work toward PV drivers for HVM, > and PVH, but this is making slow progress). 32-bit PV is faster than 64-bit PV > so all my domUs are 32bits these days.
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