From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] xen: initial domain support
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:14:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019211448.GA10109@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010191207010.2423@kaball-desktop>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16:31PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> this series implements the basic support needed to boot Linux as initial
> domain on Xen: the target is not to add full featured dom0 support in
> the kernel but to be able to boot Linux on Xen on native.
Nice, but what real use is this?
I thought people wanted dom0 support, this doesn't seem to give them
that. Is that still the end-goal here, and this is merely a
stepping-stone to get there?
curious,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 11:16 [PATCH v4 00/10] xen: initial domain support Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] xen: introduce XEN_DOM0 as a silent option stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] xen: remap GSIs as pirqs when running as initial domain stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] xen: remap MSIs into " stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 20:15 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-19 20:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] xen: map a dummy page for local apic and ioapic in xen_set_fixmap stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] xen: use vcpu_ops to setup cpu masks stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] xen: Initialize xenbus for dom0 stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] xen: add the direct mapping area for ISA bus access stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] xen: use host E820 map for dom0 stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] xen: make hvc_xen console work " stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 11:17 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] xen: mask the MTRR feature from the cpuid stefano.stabellini
2010-10-19 21:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-19 21:54 ` [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] xen: initial domain support Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-19 23:01 ` Greg KH
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