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    SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
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    On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 20:38 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
    wrote:
    > On 24.02.2014 19:39, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
    > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14:27AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
    > >> And that commit was reverted a week later in grub commit
    > >> faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 ("Revert grub-file usage in
    > >> grub-mkconfig."), see
    > >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub.d/20_linux_xen.in?id=faf4a65e1e1ce1d822d251c1e4b53d96ec7faec5 .
    > >>
    > >> That commit has no explanation (other than its one line summary). So
    > >> we're left guessing why this was done. Luckily, it doesn't matter here,
    > >> because the test for CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is superfluous.
    > >
    > > How about we ask Vladimir?
    > >
    > > Vladimir - could you shed some light on it? Thanks!
    > >
    > CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not present on Linux even though it
    > should be. The test was removed to accomodate this.

    It's not clear to me what this means, sorry.

    > The usage of grub-file was removed because it wasn't release-ready.

    I see.

    Thanks.


    Paul Bolle

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