From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3 to be the next kernel? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:15:32 -0700 Message-ID: <466472E4.9000505@goop.org> References: <1180961068.5786.188.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200706041901.22519.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> <46646232.2070005@goop.org> <200706042058.37449.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200706042058.37449.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Mark Williamson Cc: tim.post@netkinetics.net, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "Daniel P. Berrange" , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Mark Williamson wrote: >> This time for sure. Well, its queued up in -mm and doesn't seem to have >> caused any breakage there, and Linus has declared the patches "not too >> bad". >> > > Awesome. Is the plan to push some dom0 patches upstream eventually, or will > that wait for a later date? Hopefully the major part of the operation is > done with, though: distros can ship with paravirt domU compatibility by > default. > I think the vendor position is that pv-ops xen is a nice start that just makes things more complex for them in the short term, since it only handles one quarter of the dom0-domU/32-64bit Xen parameter space. But it's a start. I'm starting on dom0 stuff now (with a minor detour via getting Xen to boot bzImage kernels), mostly so I can get a feel for what the dom0 pv-ops patches will look like. I'm also hoping that (ideally) x86-32 and -64 trees get merged in time to make the 64-bit xen support trivial, but given that that's unlikely anytime soon, I'm waiting for the 64-bit lguest/pv-ops people to get x86-64 pv-ops in sync with 32-bit before starting on the Xen pieces. Of course if that takes too long (ie, longer than dom0) I might have to get more actively involved. J