Re: [MINUTES] Monthly Xen.org Technical Call (2015-07-22)

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 13:44 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:26:20PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 13:17 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > El 23/07/15 a les 12.59, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ha escrit:
> > > [...]
> > > > We forgot to speak about dom0. This work outlined will lay out 
> > > > how 
> > > > to do it - but the pieces for dom0 are not implemented and 
> > > > would 
> > > > need work (which actually may be following most of the is_pvh 
> > > > in 
> > > > the hypervisor).
> > > 
> > > Let's do that once we have DomU nailed down and the guest ABI 
> > > marked 
> > > as stable.
> > 
> > IIRC someone on the call pointed out that one large piece of the 
> > Dom0
> > work would be very similar to the PCI passthrough work, so it makes
> > sense to defer them together.
> > 
> 
> I don't recall that?

Maybe I misheard/misremembered.

> I think that the aim in January would be for domU.

Right, that's what I said in my summary.

>  I don't know if dom0
> work could also be done in that time-frame.

If it happens it happens I guess, but the goal stated was just to get
to a stable domU API by then.

> > > 
> > > Some work will indeed be needed for Dom0, for example I would 
> > > like to
> > > avoid using the current Dom0 builder (construct_dom0, that is 
> > > suited for
> > > PV, but all the PVH hacks just make it almost impossible to 
> > > understand)
> > > and start from scratch with a more sane approach.
> > > 
> > > Roger.
> > > 

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