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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: xen.git branches / pvops kernel pvusb support
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:33:24 -0700
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On 03/18/2010 04:19 PM, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:29:14AM +0900, Noboru Iwamatsu wrote:
>   =20
>> Hi,
>>
>>     =20
>>> On 03/04/2010 11:24 AM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>>>       =20
>>>> Are there any signs of pv-usb support coming ?
>>>>         =20
>>> I have not seen any work in that area.
>>>
>>>       =20
>> In the jump between 2.6.18 and current kernel,
>> several important changes are required for handling
>> the urbs and its buffers.
>> Because, the manner of the host controller and the
>> urb's behavior have been modified on the upstream.
>>
>> I'm now working on it, I hope I can post it in late
>> this month.
>>
>>     =20
> Btw Novell seems to have a forward-port of the pvusb stuff
> to their 2.6.32 xenlinux kernel (non pvops).
>
> See:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00723.htm=
l
>
> Dunno if it helps with the pvops port though :)
>   =20

It should do in the sense that that kind of driver stuff doesn't have=20
much dependency on pvops vs non-pvops.  Other things may be different=20
which could complicate things (and ideally we'd like to take things that=20
a close to upstreamable).

     J