From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kraxel@redhat.com, anthony.perard@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] xen: write information about supported backends
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 16:22:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160512152255.GM27070@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463062421-613-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 04:13:40PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Add a Xenstore directory for each supported pv backend. This will allow
> Xen tools to decide which backend type to use in case there are
> multiple possibilities.
>
> The information is added under
> /local/domain/<backend-domid>/device-model/<domid>/backends
> before the "running" state is written to Xenstore. Using a directory
> for each backend enables us to add parameters for specific backends
> in the future.
>
> This interface is documented in the Xen source repository in the file
> docs/misc/qemu-backends.txt
>
> In order to reuse the Xenstore directory creation already present in
> hw/xen/xen_devconfig.c move the related functions to
> hw/xen/xen_backend.c where they fit better.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-12 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-12 14:13 [PATCH v5 0/3] usb, xen: add pvUSB backend Juergen Gross
2016-05-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] xen: introduce dummy system device Juergen Gross
2016-05-12 15:22 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] xen: write information about supported backends Juergen Gross
2016-05-12 15:22 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-05-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] xen: add pvUSB backend Juergen Gross
2016-05-13 7:26 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] usb, " Gerd Hoffmann
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