Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/15] xen: Update libxc calls

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
> > I mean we can add them to libxc so that there is no need for this patch
> > anymore.
> 
> That would be great.  When adding the xen bits initially I've tried to 
> avoid hard dependencies on specific xen versions.  There are some ifdefs 
> in the qemu code to support compiling with various xen versions (IIRC 
> 3.1 -> 3.4 worked last time I've tried).  I think the minimum supported 
> range of xen versions should be the ones still actively maintained by 
> xensource (I think this is 3.4, 4.0 and unstable right now).  Supporting 
> even older versions would be nice to have.
> 
 
I agree on the range of xen versions, but supporting even a wider range
shouldn't be too hard, it just requires few more ifdef's.