Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Mar 2009 01:14:12 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support |
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> But that suggests the *only* reason to update kernels is to get new
Wait, it was about Dom0. They could still get all the features of the new kernels in a guest DomU.
> While a lot of the delta between 2.6.18 has been hardware support > updates, there have been a lot of other useful things: a new CPU > scheduler, tickless operation (which directly important for
The old Dom0s always did no idle tick. And I suspect most of the other things don't matter very much in a minimal Dom0.
That said I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be merged, but it seems like the "old hardware" argument is not very strong.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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