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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:21:08PM +0100, Steven Smith 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.
> Okay.  If this is something which we want to keep working in the
> future then it might be a good idea to sanify the build system a bit.
> The current approach is an unholy mixture of 2.6.18, the host kernel,
> and whatever kernel you're grabbing the actual drivers from, and is
> basically just asking for trouble.
> 

Hmm.. Did Novell guys port/fix the unmodified drivers to SLES11 (2.6.27) ?

-- Pasi


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