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Re: [Xen-devel] pv_ops dom0 USB fixed

To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pv_ops dom0 USB fixed
From: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:03:44 +0000
Cc: Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Aviv Grafi <aviv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:05:32PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ian Campbell noticed a missing TLB flush which was causing the USB
>>> crashes/failures when booting the pvops dom0 kernel.  With that fixed,
>>> enabling USB boots reliably and seems to work.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Its quite possible this will also improve matters with ATA/SATA
>>> controllers, though I haven't tested it so far.
>>>
>>> Anyway, its a significant fix and its worth trying the current pvops
>>> patch queue again.  Please tell me what you find.
>>>
>>>

Excellent news, I've tried the pv_ops dom0 kernel several times
recently and had failure with usb and sata drivers, so fingers crossed
it will work now.

I will test tomorrow and report my results ;-)

Andy

>>
>> Hmm.. against what kernel/tree are these patches?
>>
>
> See the wiki ;)
>
>
> Pull the kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6 tree, "hg update $(cat KERNEL_VERSION)",
> then "hg qpush -a"
>
>   J
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