Re: [PATCH 0/2] libxl: Support custom EFI firmware path

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On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:33:05AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 3/10/23 06:58, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > BTW: what's your view on bumping minimal XEN version from 4.9 to at
> > least 4.10 (or even something newer)? That way we could drop some code
> > (at least).
>
> We could drop a fair bit of code by bumping the minimum version to 4.13.
> That would allow us to unconditionally set LIBXL_API_VERSION to 0x041300 and
> drop support for the old 0x040500. We got stuck there since Xen didn't
> advertise support for 0x040700 and 0x040800 until commit c3999835df2, which
> was included in 4.13 - opps! According to repology
>
> Debian 11: 4.14.x
> Fedora 37: 4.16.x
> openSUSE Leap15.4/SLE15 SP4: 4.16.x
> Ubuntu 22.10: 4.16.x
>
> Maybe bumping the minimum version to 4.13 is a viable proposition?

Ubuntu 20.04 comes with Xen 4.11, so unfortunately we can't do that
for another year :(

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization





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