Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] tools changes

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 10:41 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 11:13 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Resend of changes from the 4.4 freeze time.
> >
> > Olaf Hering (11):
> >    docs: remove ia64 from kexec_and_kdump.txt
> >    unmodified_drivers: remove ia64 parts of the code
> >    docs: remove ia64 from tmem-internals.html
> >    stubdom: remove ia64 from stubdom
> >    libxc: remove ia64 from xg_private.h
> >    pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub
> >    xend: remove ia64 from xend sources
> >    libxl: add option for discard support to xl disk configuration
> >    tools/xc: pass errno to callers of xc_domain_save
> >    xend/pvscsi: recognize also SCSI CDROM devices
> >    tools/xend: move assert to exception block
> 
> 
> This reminds me: do we still need xencomm? My understanding is that it 
> was only used by ia64 (and ppc?) and Linux recently removed support for 
> it. I don't know whether other OSs use it.

My understanding was that it was a ppc thing, not sure about ia64.

Neither x86 nor arm uses it AFAIK. I'm not entirely sure what its
purpose actually was.

Ian.


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