Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] libxl: drop support for Xen < 4.6

On 03/28/2018 07:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:31:29PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > > Currently the libxl driver claims support for Xen >= 4.4, but > > > Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported upstream. Let's increase > > > the minimum supported version to 4.6. > > > > Generally libvirt would keep supporting things even if upstream > > drops support, if some relevant distro still ships and supports > > it. RHEL doesn't ship libxl though, so just Q of whether these > > libxl versions are relevant to any Suse or Debian distros that > > are actively used. > > BTW, if we're willing to drop old versions of Xen wrt the libxl > driver, shouldn't we first drop the legacy Xen driver which is > used with even older versions of Xen < 4.2 ? Touche :-). I have a dusty patchset to do that too. Time to brush it off and nuke the old driver first.