From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Espen Skoglund <espen.skoglund@netronome.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make new PCI device probe work with older hypervisors
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:07:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C497EFB3.23A43%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18546.12412.746127.288817@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On 7/7/08 16:04, "Espen Skoglund" <espen.skoglund@netronome.com> wrote:
>> If old dom0 kernels will not work with new Xen on any system
>> supporting VT-d, even when VT-d features are not going to be used
>> (e.g., for device passthrough), then that's not really acceptable.
>
>> If you have to upgrade your dom0 kernel to make use of new features
>> which VT-d enables, that's perfectly acceptable.
>
> Ok. In that case you'd better revert 17975:a3e4840b1584 and make sure
> that the PCI device enumration is never taken out of Xen.
If we revert just that one changeset, will the other patches (including the
new hypercalls) still work okay?
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-07 12:40 [PATCH] Make new PCI device probe work with older hypervisors Espen Skoglund
2008-07-07 12:55 ` Keir Fraser
2008-07-07 13:54 ` Espen Skoglund
2008-07-07 14:37 ` Keir Fraser
2008-07-07 14:54 ` Espen Skoglund
2008-07-07 14:57 ` Keir Fraser
2008-07-07 15:04 ` Espen Skoglund
2008-07-07 15:07 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2008-07-07 15:11 ` Espen Skoglund
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