From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: status of PV drivers in Xen 4.0 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:04:11 +0300 Message-ID: <20100330060411.GT1878@reaktio.net> References: <4BB11551.5010707@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BB11551.5010707@inria.fr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Guillaume Rousse Cc: Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:02:09PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Hello. > > The directory 'unmodified_drivers', in Xen-4.0rc8, seems to still > requires a 2.6.18 XenLinux kernel to build. For instance, overrides.mk > still refers to $(objtree)/include/linux/autoconf.h, instead of > $(objtree)/include/generated/autoconf.h in recent kernels. > I believe it should compile with 2.6.27 aswell.. or if it doesn't, please let us know. See here for PV-on-HVM drivers building instructions for SLES11 2.6.27: http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=653 If the unmodified_drivers from Xen 4.0 doesn't build for 2.6.27, then we should definitely add the (possible) patches from Novell. Does anyone know if the 2.6.3x Novell xenified kernels have PV-on-HVM drivers? > Is there any plan to update it to a more recent kernel, as xen 4.0 has > switched to a newer pvops tree ? > There's ongoing work to get the PV-on-HVM drivers accepted to upstream kernel.org Linux kernel. -- Pasi