Re: Re: Features scheduled for the 2.6.39 merge window

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:34:03PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> 
> Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:03:39 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 10:57 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I have lost a bit of track on what (backend) features are scheduled for the 2.6.39 merge window.
> 
> > Konrad posted a state of the world for this last night, see the thread
> > "2.6.39 merge window (git pulls and what is planned to go in)"
> 
> >> Of special interest for me:
> 
> > I'm afraid you are rather out of luck in that respect :-(
> 
> >> - blkback (tapdisk2?)
> 
> > Not planned for 2.6.39.
> 
> >> - netback
> 
> > Under review on the netdev list, might still make it.
> 
> >> - pciback
> 
> > Not planned for 2.6.39.
> 
> > FWIW blkback, netback and pciback all have relatively clean branches
> > which could be pulled in for testing purposes though.
> 
> Hmmm looking at Konrad's git tree, the master tree seems to be just that in this case :-)
> Will try it later this weekend.

Yeah, except that it does not work right now with legacy IRQ (like USB devices)
passthrough - just found out about that yesterday when I started running it through the paces.

But it works fine for PV, HVM, and Dom 0 case.