On 24/03/2021 11:48, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: >> The revert seems unattractive. Your suggested command line option >> sounds like a good workaround to me. Under the circumstances it seems >> like it should default to the old behaviour, as I think you are >> suggesting. >> >> So I am be inclined to ask if you, Jan, would prepare a patch >> implementing such an option. Anyone else have any opinions ? > I've replied to Jan's patch as well. IMHO having the option but > leaving things broken without the option set is a bad user experience > as we don't have a way to tell the user when the option is needing to > be set during install. Asking users to see if Xen crashes during boot > is a bad user experience as part of the setup. There should be an > automatic fallback to try enabling the legacy option if things don't > work without it.
I agree. I will try to make a fix with does the right thing and doesn't require users to play blind guesswork to get their system booting. ~Andrew
