From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752102AbZB1F2g (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:28:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbZB1F21 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:28:27 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36333 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750828AbZB1F20 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:28:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:28:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Xen-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support Message-Id: <20090227212812.26d02f34.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1235786365-17744-1-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org> References: <1235786365-17744-1-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:59:06 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > This series implements the core parts of Xen dom0 support; that is, just > enough to get the kernel started when booted by Xen as a dom0 kernel. And what other patches can we expect to see to complete the xen dom0 support? and.. I hate to be the one to say it, but we should sit down and work out whether it is justifiable to merge any of this into Linux. I think it's still the case that the Xen technology is the "old" way and that the world is moving off in the "new" direction, KVM? In three years time, will we regret having merged this?