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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, v2] linux-2.6.18: add privileged/unprivileged kernel feature indication

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:45:49 +0100
Cc: "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:46:42 -0700
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:32 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Aren't XEN_PRIV_CAP_STR parts pointless? Any hypervisor new enough to
> understand those features will also understand
> XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURE?

And didn't adding new features to that string break on existing
hypervisors -- hence the new interface?



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