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

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:57:43AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > so the end-result should be bulletproof (as much as it can be :).
> 
> There are some outstanding issues that we know of. I hadn't yet gotten
> my head around them, but here is a list of Xen PCI frontend bugs:
> 
> 1). Pass in 4GB or more to DomU. All the memory that the guest sees are
> RAM and there are no "holes" for the PCI devices, akin to what you have
> on a normal machine (the hole is 256MB and it shifts 256MB of RAM above
> the 4GB - we don't do that yet in DomU). Workaround: use less memory, or
> some magic Linux kernel parameter (memhole?) to create a hole.

Does this just mean you can't have PCI frontend in those domUs?
IOW it may be a regression compared to Xen .18, but not compared to what's
in mainline at the moment?

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