[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3

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>>> On 21.02.13 at 18:57, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> wrote:
> The series adds support for the new hypercall ABI which should be
> provided by Xen 4.3.  Images are loaded into Xen directly with no
> kernel involvement.
> 
> Do not apply until the hypervisor side patches are applied to Xen.
> 
> Patch 1 is unrelated but kexec wouldn't work for me without it. Not
> sure why I had problems, perhaps a toolstack specific issue?
> 
> Patch 2 makes libxc 4.3 mandatory for Xen support.

That doesn't sound right. How do you envision this to be
incorporated into existing distros that don't right away switch
to Xen 4.3?

Jan

> Patch 3 removes a use of /proc/iomem in favour of libxc.
> 
> Patch 4 adds the support for loading an image into Xen.
> 
> This series explicitly drops support for older version of libxc/Xen as
> supporting kexec on these hypervisors requires kernel support that
> will never be available upstream.
> 
> David
> 
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