From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] Xen-side netchannel2 patches, take two Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:46:39 -0700 Message-ID: <4ACBBABF.3040909@goop.org> References: <20091006202840.GQ1434@reaktio.net> <4FA716B1526C7C4DB0375C6DADBC4EA342A68E5C79@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FA716B1526C7C4DB0375C6DADBC4EA342A68E5C79@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "joserenato.santos@hp.com" , "JBeulich@novell.com" , Don Dutile , Steven Smith , Keir Fraser List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 10/06/09 13:41, Ian Pratt wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:35:42PM +0100, steven.smith@citrix.com wrote: >> >>> This patch series includes all of the Xen and tools bits of >>> netchannel2. It's essentially similar to the one I posted on Sunday, >>> except: >>> >>> -- I've dropped the unmodified drivers support. It'd probably be >>> fairly straightforward to re-introduce it, but it's not clear that >>> anyone's actually using unmodified drivers any more (they don't >>> even build against a 2.6.27 kernel, for instance). >>> >> At least Redhat/Fedora guys have been thinking of shipping pv-on-hvm Xen >> drivers for Fedora 12 / RHEL6.. But I don't know what's the status of >> that. >> > Yes, this certainly isn't a feature we want to drop. In fact, it would be good to see the pv-on-hvm drivers modified to use some of the pvops functions where available. > Don Dutile from RH is actively working on this. J