From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/8]: PVH startup changes (enlighten.c) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:41:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20121008124101.GB29650@localhost.localdomain> References: <20120924154335.097d3fb9@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20120925180416.0137d61a@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20121002183619.70734b7a@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20121002190323.2e16f6ff@mantra.us.oracle.com> <1349265914.650.136.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <20121004183528.060416a0@mantra.us.oracle.com> <1349429005.20946.20.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1349429005.20946.20.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: "Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Stefano Stabellini , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:23:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 02:35 +0100, Mukesh Rathor wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:05:14 +0100 > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 12:58 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > > > So for now, how about, lets go > > > > > with what I've got. I'll make a note, and when I do xen patch, > > > > > I'll figure it out, and would be a very small linux patch. I want > > > > > to get linux patch in soon before the window closes. > > > > > > > > We can leave page special as it is for now with very little > > > > consequences, because it is not part of the interface with Xen. > > > > However this is part of the interface, so whatever we choose here > > > > is going to be hard to change later on. > > > > > > I suggested that until we have seen and reviewed the hypervisor side > > > patches this guest side functionality all needs to be under an option > > > which has CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL as a dependency and a comment explaining > > > that the ABI is not fixed yet, similar to what we did for the ARM > > > port. > > > > Konrad is going to keep the changes in his tree and not upstream for > > couple months while we go thru the xen patches. This would be a big > > help for me as I won't have to constantly refresh linux tree. > > Ah, ok, that sounds like a good plan. > > In the case where the ARM stuff I have built on this becomes ripe first > would it be OK with you guys if I were to cherry pick the relevant bits > of the PVH stuff into a series to go in sooner? My plan right now was to wait for Mukesh to repost his series (which I hope will address all our review comments) and then I can shovel any other patches on top of that. But if it makes sense to intermix Mukeshes's patchs, and yours. (or squash some together) I can do that too.