Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755019Ab3GWEZo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:25:44 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:45365 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753862Ab3GWEZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:25:40 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ramkumar Ramachandra Cc: LKML Subject: Re: [QUERY] lguest64 In-Reply-To: <51E97779.3020103@zytor.com> References: <51E97779.3020103@zytor.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.2+81~gd2c8818 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:58:06 +0930 Message-ID: <87zjte9iah.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 29 "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > On 07/19/2013 02:06 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried building lguest to play with it, but was disappointed to find >> this in the Kconfig: >> >> depends on X86_32 >> >> Why is this [1]? What is so hard about supporting 64-bit machines? I >> found a five-year old tree that claims to do lguest64 [2], but didn't >> investigate further. >> > > Please don't have us deal with another lguest unless there is a use case > for it. We want to reduce pvops and pvops users, not increase them... > > -hpa Yes, the subset of x86-64 machines for which there isn't hardware virtualization support is pretty uninteresting. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/