Re: [FW: FYI: The plan for Xen kernels in Fedora 9]

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> I just tidied up my current tree, and I've pushed patches to 
>
> 	http://people.redhat.com/sct/patches/dom0-pvops/2.6.24-rc4-A0/
>
> These include Jeremy Fitzhardinge's existing dom0 work (except for the
> chunk that was a start towards adding the ELF note stuff to vmlinux,
> I'll add that back once it's at least compiling properly.)
>
> So far everything is done within the pvops framework, so there's nothing
> added that stops a single kernel image running both baremetal and as
> dom0.  New since Jeremy's patches are a basic mtrr plugin (not full
> runtime mtrr, but enough to satisfy SMP boot), a bit of ACPI tweaking
> and ioremap pv_ops.

I just had a quick look through this, and it looks good to me.  One
thing though: I'm wondering if we shouldn't have CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 protect
this stuff, so that its possible to build a domU-only kernel.

    J