linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 00/12] HVMlite domU support

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:25:56 -0500
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	roger.pau@...rix.com, mcgrof@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/12] HVMlite domU support

On 01/25/2016 05:51 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 22/01/16 21:35, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> This series introduces HVMlite support for unprivileged guests.
>>
>> It has been tested on Intel/AMD, both 32- and 64-bit, including CPU on- and
>> offlining and save/restore. (Restore will result in APIC write warnings
>> which exist now for 32-bit PV guests as well so I didn't address this in
>> this series)
> Can you remove PVH support in this series as well?  We won't necessarily
> remove PVH support immediately but I'd like to see the ultimate end result.

I'd rather wait until we have HVMlite dom0 before dropping PVH. If 
nothing else it may help debugging.

BTW, I assume we are going to rename HVMlite to PVH once the original 
implementation is removed.


-boris