linux-kernel - Re: [QUERY] lguest64

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Message-ID: <51E97779.3020103@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:29:29 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] lguest64

On 07/19/2013 02:06 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried building lguest to play with it, but was disappointed to find
> this in the Kconfig:
> 
>   depends on X86_32
> 
> Why is this [1]?  What is so hard about supporting 64-bit machines?  I
> found a five-year old tree that claims to do lguest64 [2], but didn't
> investigate further.
> 

Please don't have us deal with another lguest unless there is a use case
for it.  We want to reduce pvops and pvops users, not increase them...

	-hpa


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