Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (123 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:04:57 +0100
schrieb "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Just as we're in the process of doing for SLE11 SP2, we'd like to
> remove 32-bit host support in Xen (and hence kernel-xen) for 12.1.
> 32-bit guests will continue to be supported. Please speak up if you
> have reasons that should keep us from doing so.

Old machines that cannot do KVM (for example Pentium M, everything intel
before Core 2 duo, maybe some early ATOM processors?) can do very well as a
XEN host.

I know this is irrelvant for SLES11, but it might be relevant for openSUSE
users.

Is there a technical reason ("The 32bit host code is ugly as hell and only
worked by accident") or is it a "keep the matrix of kernel / Xen packages
small" reasoning?

If it's the latter, could one still build a Xen package for 32 bits in the
Buildservice? (I did something like this with a kernel-desktop for non-pae
machines, the mentioned Pentium M Dothan box, before I got a shiny new
ThinkPad for my new job).

Best regards,

        Stefan
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Stefan Seyfried

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