Re: drop xen4.8 ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:41:00PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > No objection, but a reminder that the Xen Howto also needs to be
> > updated.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder.  I just updated eol status based on Manuel's
> explanations.
> 
> Things I am not 100% clear on, written as statements - please tell me if
> wrong:
> 
>   Since 4.2, xen has required PAE support for i386, both dom0 and domU.
> 
>   On 4.2 and higher, one needs an amd64 xenkernel, even if one is
>   running i386 PAE as the dom0.

If I trust ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM, Xen 4.2 should run on plain i386 (no PAE).
But I've not tried for a long time.
4.6 and later are clearly only amd64.

> 
>   On 4.2 through 4.11, one can still use i386 PAE as the dom0, but
>   really everybody uses amd64 and there is no good reason to run the
>   dom0 in i386 mode (unless you really still have i386-only hardware
>   that you want to run Xen on).
> 
>   On 4.2 through 4.11, running a i386 PAE DOMU works just fine, as does
>   an amd64 DOMU.

Correct

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