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Re: [Xen-devel] upstream merge status for 2.6.35, .36?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] upstream merge status for 2.6.35, .36?
From: Josip Rodin <joy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:32:01 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:48:11AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:20:06PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 06/04/2010 03:39 PM, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > What about the future? I saw Konrad's applied his swiotlb tree with the
> > > right acks for inclusion into linux-next, so that looks like it's planned
> > > to be ready to go in when the .36 merge window opens, right?
> > 
> > Yes, and I'm hoping we can get pcifront and pvhvm lined up for .36; with
> > those in place, its a short jump to full dom0 functionality (which, no
> > promises, might also get into .36 on their tails).
> 
> swiotlb seems to be in linux-next now.. Congratulations!

Yes, http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/5/71

Now that looks exceedingly smooth, but if you look at the date on
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/11/223 ... on the bright side, the new swiotlb
branch is both peer-reviewed and user-tested in xen/stable-2.6.32.x AFAICT,
so the end-result should be bulletproof (as much as it can be :).

-- 
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