linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen PVonHVM: require at least Xen 3.4 as dom0

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:56:31 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen PVonHVM: require at least Xen 3.4 as dom0

On Tue, Oct 30, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 05:05:05PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The XenPVHVM extensions have not been tested much on very old
> > hypervisors. At least Xen 3.4 gets some testing with the pvops kernel.

> IIRC upstream Linux PVonHVM drivers do work OK today on RHEL5 Xen, 
> which advertises itself as Xen 3.1.2-based..

Konrad,

based on this info, please drop this patch.
It does not fix a real bug.

Olaf
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