[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] kexec-tools: add support for Xen 4.3

[David Vrabel]

On 22/02/13 08:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 21.02.13 at 18:57, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> wrote:
>> The series adds support for the new hypercall ABI which should be
>> provided by Xen 4.3.  Images are loaded into Xen directly with no
>> kernel involvement.
>>
>> Do not apply until the hypervisor side patches are applied to Xen.
>>
>> Patch 1 is unrelated but kexec wouldn't work for me without it. Not
>> sure why I had problems, perhaps a toolstack specific issue?
>>
>> Patch 2 makes libxc 4.3 mandatory for Xen support.
> 
> That doesn't sound right. How do you envision this to be
> incorporated into existing distros that don't right away switch
> to Xen 4.3?

Eric Bierderman said in an earlier thread[1]:

"Certainly /sbin/kexec will only support the new hypercall once the
support has merged."

David

[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-01/msg00754.html