Re: lguest re-review

[Rusty Russell]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 17:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:24:08 +1000
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 02:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Some concern was expressed over the lguest review status, so I shall send
> > > the patches out again for people to review, to test, to make observations
> > > about the author's personal appearance, etc.
> > 
> > Thanks Andrew,
> > 
> > 	This means I can finally ack this patch (thanks Eric):
> > 
> > From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
> > Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization"
> > 
> > This reverts commit c9ccf30d77f04064fe5436027ab9d2230c7cdd94.
> 
> I don't get it.  Does lguest no longer need this code, or will
> it be reintroduced with an lguest merge, or something else?

Lguest no longer needs it (the magic signature patch you took).

HPA and Eric are brewing a new, shinier way for booting not-a-normal-pc
which will address lguest as well as others.  But it seems they first
need to go through the "who knows most about ancient PCs" slapfight.

Thanks!
Rusty.

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