From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932509Ab0CJRdk (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:33:40 -0500 Received: from reaktio.net ([194.89.68.22]:41261 "EHLO ydin.reaktio.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756949Ab0CJRdi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:33:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:39 +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 0 of 5] PV on HVM Xen Message-ID: <20100310173339.GO1878@reaktio.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:46:54PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > this is a reduced and rebased version of the patch series I sent > yesterday "enhanced PV on HVM": this series is based on Linux 2.5.32 and > can be applied now, it includes everything but the pirq remapping > related functions that are not ready to be upstreamed at the moment. > > Therefore it just achieves the goal of enabling PV devices in Linux > running in a Xen HVM domain, it doesn't allow event channels delivery in > place of interrupts. > > The patch series consists of 5 patches, each patch comes with a detailed > description. > In order for this to work we also need a patch for Xen, that is being > worked on as we speak. > Hmm.. is it possible to get PV-on-HVM drivers working on older Xen versions, that don't have additional patches? Just like the unmodified_drivers works for 2.6.18 and 2.6.27. -- Pasi