Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch 0/2] Fix request-abs-pointer (again)

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:40:00PM +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> A little while ago, Jeremy Fitzhardinge has a problem that was preventing
> request-abs-pointer from being honoured.  A simple fix for this in
> 805ed3b20492d2f4bb465bfda65cedd286e23209 actually turned out to be wrong.
> 
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk and Stefano Stabellini suggested a different
> approach: introduce a new hook in xen_backend that, if defined, is called
> when the frontend is connected.  The first of these two patches does just
> that (the old connect hook is now called "initialise" and the new hook is
> called "connected").   The second patch uses this to set up the pointer at
> the right time.   I haven't been able to test this in a Xen 4.0
> environment, but it works properly in a Xen 3.4 environment.

I tested them by:
 1). Reverting c/s 21260 and 21651 from Xen unstable
 2). Applied both of your patches on top of
add968aaf68cb57257428f8cfadb209f2614a6d8

and tested the pv-grub launch with success.

I did not test the HVM stubdomain launch.

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