From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: lguest re-review Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:30:32 +1000 Message-ID: <1178760632.7286.187.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070509025122.f3cb7247.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1178756648.7286.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070509175018.a4a685b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070509175018.a4a685b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , "Eric W. Biederman" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 17:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:24:08 +1000 > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 02:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Some concern was expressed over the lguest review status, so I shall send > > > the patches out again for people to review, to test, to make observations > > > about the author's personal appearance, etc. > > > > Thanks Andrew, > > > > This means I can finally ack this patch (thanks Eric): > > > > From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) > > Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization" > > > > This reverts commit c9ccf30d77f04064fe5436027ab9d2230c7cdd94. > > I don't get it. Does lguest no longer need this code, or will > it be reintroduced with an lguest merge, or something else? Lguest no longer needs it (the magic signature patch you took). HPA and Eric are brewing a new, shinier way for booting not-a-normal-pc which will address lguest as well as others. But it seems they first need to go through the "who knows most about ancient PCs" slapfight. Thanks! Rusty.