Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:32:07 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > The long term plan has been to replace Xen PV guests by PVH. The first > victim of that plan are now 32-bit PV guests, as those are used only > rather seldom these days. Xen on x86 requires 64-bit support and with > Grub2 now supporting PVH officially since version 2.04 there is no > need to keep 32-bit PV guest support alive in the Linux kernel. > Additionally Meltdown mitigation is not available in the kernel running > as 32-bit PV guest, so dropping this mode makes sense from security > point of view, too. > > Juergen Gross (2): > x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support > x86/paravirt: remove 32-bit support from PARAVIRT_XXL
Hooray!
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