From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: domU guest for xcp 0.1.1 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:34:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1271147680.7293.282.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> References: <20100331143913.GL1878@reaktio.net> <20100405170013.GA16921@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20100406060337.GQ1878@reaktio.net> <20100412140432.GA28403@phenom.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ritu kaur Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Backporting is usually pretty easy but it does somewhat depend on the scope of the changesets you are backporting, do you have a list? Please try and pickup complete upstream commits and include them in the relevant place within the 2.6.27 patch queue (either the "Patches from Linux Torvalds linux-2.6.git tree" or "Patches from xen.git" section I guess) and sort plus name the patches as described in the section headers. Ian. On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 23:14 +0100, Ritu kaur wrote: > Thanks Konrad. The reason I am asking is if it is feasible and doable > in a reasonable amount of time(2 ~ 3 weeks of development/testing) I > can check with my boss if I could volunteer to do this work. I am not > familiar with 2.6.27 code either but thought I could learn along with > this. > > Thanks > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:11:40AM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote: > > Hello > > > > > Any inputs on backporting changes to xcp 2.6.27 source? > > > I've haven't looked at the 2.6.27 source (don't have the > time). > The back-port might be as easy as just plucking in two or > three > lines of code that pass in the > BIND_PIRQ__WILL_SHARE flag to the EVTCHNOP_bind_pirq > hypercall. > > But .. it might be much more complex where you will need to > backport the > drivers/xen/events.c framework. > > > > > In addition, I had another question. I believe > pci-passthrough works for > > pci-e slots as well. I have not tested it just wanted to > check if any > > additional config changes are needed to make it work? > > > Yes. It should work. >