Re: [PATCH] xen: relax signature check

[Anthony Liguori]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Not BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3.", 6) != 0); ?
> > I don't thin Xen version 32 will be compatible ...
> >   
>
> It had better be; if it loads the kernel, it should present a xen-3
> compatible ABI.

If xen-32.0 should be compatible than wouldn't xen-24.0 be compatible 
too?  I think the point was that you should either be checking for 
'xen-3.x' or something more general that would accept anything >= xen-3.0.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> But this is just a sanity check to make sure things are basically OK;
> BUG_ON is hardly nice error reporting (not that there's much else we can
> do at that point).
>
>     J

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