From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Durrant Subject: [PATCH 0/2] PV drivers product number registration Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:50:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1348667438-28496-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Paul Durrant List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org PV drivers in HVM guests typically make use off an 'unplug' protocol in QEMU to prevent co-existence of emulated devices. See docs/misc/hvm-emulated-unplug.markdown for details. The register of product numbers used by the blacklisting feature of this protocol is currently directly in the xenstore.c source module of traditional QEMU. It should really be in a Xen header file to prevent duplication/conflict between QEMU versions. Moreover the linux PV-on-HVM drivers make use of product number 3 seemingly without ever registering that number. This patch series introduces a new header and registers product number 3 for Linux's use. A subsequent patch to qemu-xen-unstable wll be created to make use of the new header. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant