From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sheng Yang Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] xen: Enable event channel of PV extension of HVM Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:34:51 +0800 Message-ID: <201003110934.51408.sheng@linux.intel.com> References: <1268032732-8025-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> <201003101056.42511.sheng@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Ian Campbell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ian Pratt , Keir Fraser , Ingo Molnar , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wednesday 10 March 2010 23:29:30 Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Sheng Yang wrote: > > I think we can leave the controversial thing later. At least, we want a > > framework for PV extension of HVM. We can work together to determine what > > is the better way for evtchn, as well as porting pirqs. (And the later > > MSI work may also depends on it) > > Most of my patch series can be upstreamed right now, the only thing that > needs some extra work is the pirq remapping. > So yes, we can upstream the rest and that would also make PV on HVM work > on linux upstream ASAP. > I think that is a worthy goal by itself, therefore I am going to send > another reduced patch series, ready to be upstreamed, without pirq > remappings, with support for PV on HVM. > I think my first 6 patches can be used without modification. And I've already spent lots of efforts on them with Jeremy. We can work on evtchn and platform pci later. Thanks. -- regards Yang, Sheng