From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754620AbZE2Vbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752486AbZE2Vb1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:27 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:33283 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752313AbZE2Vb1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4A20542A.8020407@goop.org> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:31:22 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: George Dunlap , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Keir Fraser , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen is a feature References: <162f4c90-6431-4a2a-b337-6d7451d7b11e@default> <20090528001350.GD26820@elte.hu> <4A1F302E.8030501@goop.org> <20090528.210559.137121893.davem@davemloft.net> <4A1FCE8E.2060604@eu.citrix.com> <87tz33ep1b.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <87tz33ep1b.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > George Dunlap writes: > > cc list from hell trimmed. > > >> allowing Linux to run as dom0 *is* improving Linux. The lack of dom0 >> support is at this moment making life more difficult for a huge number >> of Linux users who use Xen, including Mozilla, Debian, and Amazon. >> Adding dom0 support would make Linux even more useful to a wide >> variety of people not using Xen at the moment. >> > > Perhaps one way to address this problem would be to make the Dom0 > interface less intrusive for the host OS? > I'm certainly not deaf to criticism along those lines, and I'm looking at ways of cleaning up/decoupling those interactions. But my frustration arises from the fact that there's been a total stall on merging any of the pieces, even the ones which are either uncontroversial, or purely xen-internal changes. J