From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: scsi passthrough in pvops kernel Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:29:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4ABC00F2.6020500@goop.org> References: <20090924124823.GB9056@phenom.dumpdata.com> <4ABBCD7F.30104@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 09/24/09 15:25, James Harper wrote: > Noboru sent me a pre-release copy of his next release. He will be > officially releasing sometime soon so I'll wait until then if he hasn't > ported them already. With my updates the drivers compile under the pvops > kernel but they call usb_buffer_free with interrupts disabled and > dma_free_coherent doesn't like it (billions of warnings logged). > Yes, sounds like that ought to be fixed. > Are you interested in putting in usbback (and scsiback - I'll do that > shortly if nobody else does) without the corresponding frontend drivers? > My main focus is the Windows GPLPV frontend drivers so the Linux > frontend drivers aren't a priority for me at this point... I can > probably convert scsifront as scsi drivers are pretty basic but a lot of > this usb stuff still baffles me :) Sure. I can stick them on their own branch if they're not really ready for general use. J