Linux 5.4 Officially Deprecates Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.4 Officially Deprecates Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support

As a late change that was merged yesterday for the Linux 5.4 kernel that will be released in the next few weeks, Xen 32-bit PV guest support has been deprecated...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.4-Deprecates-32-bit-PV

[vladpetric]

The first AMD64 processor, the Opteron, was released 16 years ago ... Deprecation is the right way to go.

[edwaleni]

This will allow Phoronix to retire a large deal of legacy hardware in his inventory kept around for legacy testing.

[bobpaul]

This will allow Phoronix to retire a large deal of legacy hardware in his inventory kept around for legacy testing.

Only if he has a big collection of virtual hardware.

[mrugiero]

If still running x86_32 as the host system as opposed to just 32-bit VMs

That's not the case anywhere, according to this:

Xen on x86 requires 64-bit support

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/15/228

[Michael]

This will allow Phoronix to retire a large deal of legacy hardware in his inventory kept around for legacy testing.

I don't keep any x86 32-bit systems in the racks at all.

[Vistaus]

The first AMD64 processor, the Opteron, was released 16 years ago ... Deprecation is the right way to go.

Except that some users on here will complain anyway ;-)

[vladpetric]

Except that some users on here will complain anyway ;-)

Of course.

Maybe we can get a block button at some point (FB-style) ?

[starshipeleven]

Except that some users on here will complain anyway ;-)

but... but... think of the children!

[vladpetric]

but... but... think of the children!

Do bits have children?