From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755553Ab0CDNPU (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:15:20 -0500 Received: from reaktio.net ([194.89.68.22]:44884 "EHLO ydin.reaktio.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754839Ab0CDNPT (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:15:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:15:20 +0200 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] Linux pvops: early PV on HVM Message-ID: <20100304131520.GT2761@reaktio.net> References: <20100304093237.GS2761@reaktio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:44:04AM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:30:18PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > this patch is derived from an earler version of the patch named "Xen PV > > > extension of HVM initialization" in Shen's patch series. > > > This patch: > > > > > > - initializes basic pv on hvm features in xen_guest_init; > > > > > > > Are you planning to make pv-on-hvm disk/net frontends also > > work for HVM guests running 2.6.3x pvops kernels? > > > > Yes, that what I meant. > Even though many things are still missing in the patch series, this > feature works already in last version I sent. > Oh, nice. pv-on-hvm support has been missing for a long time from upstream kernel.org kernels. Redhat guys will be interested of this aswell.. they're planning to have Xen pv-on-hvm drivers for rhel6. -- Pasi