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

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

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?
 
I think that the aim in January would be for domU. I don't know if dom0
work could also be done in that time-frame.
> > 
> > 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.
> >