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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirt-ops VMI / Xen / lrustyvisor merge status
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:54:34 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171000474.2718.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CC0672.7090201@vmware.com>

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:28 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> So, as 2.6.21-rc1 is approaching, what is the upstream merge status for 
> the paravirt-ops backends?  I believe VMI is in Andi's tree, plus or 
> minus some bugfixes that are still being whittled in, but Andi, do you 
> think the VMI code is in good shape for merging?
> 
> It would be nice for everyone to clarify their upstream plans - is the 
> goal still to get Xen and lguest merged for the next kernel release?
> 
> Rusty, you mentioned you had a patchset to push, when do you expect to 
> have it ready?

I'm just doing the final file moving now (everything in
arch/i386/lguest), expect to send out something within 48 hours (I need
to sync up to latest git tree, too).

> One of which is separating the paravirt-ops into GPL 
> and non-GPL exports, which we need consensus on where the line is, but 
> can't really achieve it until everyone is happy with the finalized set 
> of paravirt-ops.  Any patch that tries to do this now would just cause 
> rejects later and slow all of our merges.

Yes, I have a patch, but it breaks kvm.  I'm waiting until things settle
before fixing it.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09  5:28 Paravirt-ops VMI / Xen / lrustyvisor merge status Zachary Amsden
2007-02-09  5:54 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-02-09  6:12   ` Zachary Amsden
2007-02-09  6:24     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-09  6:58       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-02-09  6:44     ` Rusty Russell
2007-02-09  6:57       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-09  6:59       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-02-09  7:06         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-09  7:20         ` Rusty Russell
2007-02-09  7:35   ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-09  8:46     ` Rusty Russell
2007-02-09  6:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-09  7:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-09  7:35   ` Zachary Amsden

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