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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Drop support for Xen 4.1 and older from qemu-xen
@ 2016-02-09 16:16 Ian Campbell
  2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen: drop support for Xen 4.1 and older Ian Campbell
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ian Campbell @ 2016-02-09 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stefano.stabellini, qemu-devel; +Cc: xen-devel

This is most easily explained by the commit log of the first patch:

    Xen 4.2 become unsupported upstream in 09/2105 (see
    http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Release_Features). However as far as the
    interfaces provided by the toolstack libraries go 4.2 and 4.3 are
    indistinguishable.
    
    Therefore drop support for Xen 4.1 and earlier which removes a whole
    pile of compatibility code which makes future work (to use stable
    library interfaces provided by upstream) more difficult. In particular
    all supported versions now use a pointer as a libxc handle (4.1 and
    earlier used an integer, resulting in various shim layers).
    
    Also Xen 4.2 was the first version of Xen to formally support upstream
    QEMU (as a preview) so that makes sense as a cut-off now.

The rest of the patches are just further cleanups which become possible.

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2016-02-09 16:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Drop support for Xen 4.1 and older from qemu-xen Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen: drop support for Xen 4.1 and older Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 16:27   ` Peter Maydell
2016-02-09 16:50   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-10 10:30     ` Ian Campbell
2016-02-10 10:45       ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] xen: drop xen_xc_hvm_inject_msi wrapper Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 16:54   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] xen: drop XenXC and associated interface wrappers Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 17:18   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] xen: move xenforeignmemory compat layer into common place Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 17:18   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] xen: Drop __XEN_LATEST_INTERFACE_VERSION__ checks from prior to Xen 4.2 Ian Campbell
2016-02-09 17:23   ` Stefano Stabellini

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