From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Most up to date blktap2 kernel driver Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:51:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1314273065.10283.63.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> References: <20110824141524.GY32373@reaktio.net> <1314199237.10283.33.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Roger Pau =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Daniel@mx1.upc.es" , Daniel Stodden , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:45 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Regarding kernels, xen.git seems to be missing the blktap2 driver: > > http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=tree;f=drivers/xen;h=60ce8f2fa68504158843caefdbb8c6f149a37edf;hb=xen/stable-2.6.32.x > > I only see a blktap folder, and no blktap2. Now I'm reading the code from: The contents of drivers/blktap in that tree is the blktap2 kernel side. > http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/file/0b8a9b22b70a/drivers/xen/blktap2 > > I have a couple of books regarding Xen, the most helpful one being > "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" by David Chisnall, it has > been very helpful in understanding grant tables, but it doesn't have > any information regarding blktap/blktap2 driver internals, and I > cannot find any information apart from the code itself. Is there any > book that contains helpful information about the blktap > implementation? Sorry, not that I know of. Ian.