Re: Status of SR-IOV for Xen?

[Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>]

It is better not to duplicate the efforts if Yu Zhao is working on it. 
Otherwise, I would be interested on it too.

-Wei

Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:13:37AM -0600, Wei Huang wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Any further update on SR-IOV support for Xen? Are we going to include 
>  > this feature soon?
> 
> I am also interested in this and would be willing to do some work
> on breaking out the patches to address Jan Beulich's concerns[1]
> about accreditation. And to bring the patches up to date with the most
> recent Linux patches. The main problem that I see with the latter
> that 2.6.18.8's PCI stack is now quite old, so using that as
> a target would be more work than for instance using the paravirt ops
> work that Jeremy Fitzhardinge has been working on.
> 
> [1] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00965.html
> 
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> Simon Horman
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