-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: i386 Xen PV support still needed? Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:19:49 +0200 From: Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, glibc@fedoraproject.org
We still build a special glibc variant for Xen which avoids certain segment-relative accesses which are difficult to emulate with paravirtualization..
Is this still needed? Can we drop it?
Thanks, Florian
On 08/01/2017 08:21 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
We still build a special glibc variant for Xen which avoids certain segment-relative accesses which are difficult to emulate with paravirtualization..
Is this still needed? Can we drop it?
It's only an optimization for i686 on Xen.
The fewer multilibs we have for i686 the better.
I think we should do this once Rawhide branches, we should make it part of the glibc system-wide change request.