Re: Troubles building the xen linux pv drivers

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:53:04PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I'm having trouble building the xen linux pv drivers from xen 3.4.1:
>> [guillaume@oberkampf linux-2.6]$ make -C 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb/build/ M=$PWD modules
>> make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb'
>>   CC [M] 
>> /home/guillaume/xen-3.4.1/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/balloon/balloon.o
>> In file included from 
>> /home/guillaume/xen-3.4.1/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/balloon/balloon.c:51:
>> include/xen/interface/memory.h:32: error: expected 
>> specifier-qualifier-list before 'GUEST_HANDLE'
>> include/xen/interface/memory.h:53: warning: data definition has no type 
>> or storage class
>>
>> My current kernel is a 2.6.31.5, and I'm using a vanilla 2.6.30.2 + 
>> Andrew Lyon patches as xenified linux tree.
>>
> 
> I think unmodified_drivers is currently only supported on Linux 2.6.18.
They are commit logs message in mercurial about fixing build with Linux 
2.6.27+, so I think at least 2.6.27 is supposed to build.

> Novell has some patches to make it work on 2.6.27.
Is there a public repository available for them ?

> Also, afaik, someone at Redhat is working on porting the
> unmodified_drivers to pv_ops framework for upstream Linux kernel.
Again, I'm interested by any reference about where to find the code.
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