From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: devel/merge.2.6.35-rc3 [WAS: [GIT PULL] pv/pcifront-2.6.32 + pv/pciback-2.6.32 = [INTx/MSI/MSI-X work now]] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:45:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20100622184521.GA4784@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20100421025903.GA26843@phenom.dumpdata.com> <359195472.20100421104336@eikelenboom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <359195472.20100421104336@eikelenboom.it> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Sander Eikelenboom Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, thomas@schwinge.name List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:43:36AM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > Is your xen-swiotlb work also going to be merged with this? So, I never got to answer this. The answer is: eventually. When we get to stabilizing 2.6.34 to work as Dom0, we will be definitely using that. > Guess i will wait for this one to get merged by Jeremy to test and replace my dom0 and domU kernels. For the DomU, if you feel adventurous, I've just updated two branches with the latest Xen PCI frontend driver: pv/merge.2.6.34 devel/merge.2.6.35-rc3 The 2.6.35-rc-3 contains the latest of the swiotlb, xen-swiotlb, xen pcifront, etc. Lots of cleanup, merging of patches, etc. to make it nicer for Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). The outstanding bugs are: - pvgrub isn't working well. If you specify 'iommu=soft' pvgrub breaks. - the xen tools nor the xen pci front specify an PCI region, hence your guess is limited to 3GB so that you have a memory region below 4GB for 32bit guest devices. > > Is there anything you need to be tested upfront ? Oh man, I like that. If you feel you have the time, booting the DomU kernel with any hardware would be appreciated. And try to do funky stuff. I don't think I've completely hardened the driver.