John Levon wrote:
> We currently ship a PAE 32-bit domU that we can trivially make bimodal,
> except that if we set it to "bimodal", then older Xens will default to
> thinking the domU is not PAE:
>
> 353 dsi->pae_kernel = PAEKERN_no;
> 354 if ( dsi->__elfnote_section )
> 355 {
> 356 p = xen_elfnote_string(dsi, XEN_ELFNOTE_PAE_MODE);
> 357 if ( p != NULL && strncmp(p, "yes", 3) == 0 )
> 358 dsi->pae_kernel = PAEKERN_extended_cr3;
>
> Could we have a new note instead?
I don't think it improves the situation, for older Xens you need two
kernels anyway, even if the only difference is the content of the
pae_mode elf note ...
cheers,
 Gerd
-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
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