RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 8] Xen-side netchannel2 patches, take two

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:35:42PM +0100, steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This patch series includes all of the Xen and tools bits of
> > netchannel2.  It's essentially similar to the one I posted on Sunday,
> > except:
> >
> > -- I've dropped the unmodified drivers support.  It'd probably be
> >    fairly straightforward to re-introduce it, but it's not clear that
> >    anyone's actually using unmodified drivers any more (they don't
> >    even build against a 2.6.27 kernel, for instance).
> 
> At least Redhat/Fedora guys have been thinking of shipping pv-on-hvm Xen
> drivers for Fedora 12 / RHEL6.. But I don't know what's the status of
> that.

Yes, this certainly isn't a feature we want to drop. In fact, it would be good 
to see the pv-on-hvm drivers modified to use some of the pvops functions where 
available. 

Ian

 
> There's also a note about it on Xen Wiki:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> 
> "Work in progress: pv-on-hvm driver support "
> 
> dunno about the status of that either :)
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
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