Re: Xen 4.3 development update RC2 imminent

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 05/21/2013 09:19 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 20.05.13 at 12:36, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>   * Windows 2003 fails to install in Xen-unstable tip
>>>    > Narrowed down to c/s 2fe82ac11fd078485388fe7c5e8bc3b6ac9185b0
>>>    owner: Jan Beulich
>>>    status: Patches posted
>>
>> Given that Keir hasn't weighed in on this, and you are the RTC
>> maintainer, can you please make an executive decision and check in a
>> fix of some kind -- either reverting RTC or applying the recent patch
>> series fixes?
>
> I pushed the remaining three patches of the series (left out the
> reset adjustment as agreed to earlier with Tim).
>
>> Whatever the solution is we need to start to get it tested as early as
>> possible.
>>
>>> * XSA-46 regression in PV pass-through?
>>>    > Seems to be a xend issue; therefore not a 4.3 blocker
>>>    owner: Jan Beulich
>>>    status: patch posted (libxc enforces 1:1 mapping of pirqs)
>>
>> Is your 1:1 pirq mapping patch suitable for 4.3, do you think?
>
> Yes, absolutely - once we understand why it apparently (or really)
> doesn't work on 4.2 (while the reporter using 4.1 meanwhile
> confirmed it working there). I hope to get to this later today, but
> there's quite a bit of other stuff I also need to take care of.

I think it actually does work -- if it's Gordan Bobic you're thinking 
of, he (rather unhelpfully) corrected himself on a different thread:

http://osdir.com/ml/general/2013-05/msg42553.html

"I stand corrected! Jan's patch does in fact fix the problem. I have no 
idea what I was doing wrong, but I just tried it again (for the 4th 
time) just to make sure, uninstalled the old packages, installed the new 
ones - and now it works! There must have been a stale file somewhere 
that was breaking it."

  -George