RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Community effort neededtocatch upwithxen-unstable

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Thanks, Kevin and John, for all your hard work to get
this working again.

I haven't looked closely at the patches (Kevin's, and
John's which haven't yet been posted :-)...

Are there any files changed that are NOT ia64-specific?
I want to be very careful about putting files into
xen-ia64-unstable.hg that, if pulled into xen-unstable.hg,
might break Xen/x86.  These should probably be separate
patches so Keir can look at them individually.

Also, once this is all working, we should look at what
it would take to get xenlinux/ia64 built directly from
the xen(-sparse) tree so we won't have to play
"catch up" again.

Logging out for the evening now...
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Byrne, John (HP Labs)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:24 PM
> To: Tian, Kevin
> Cc: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Community effort neededtocatch 
> upwithxen-unstable
> 
> Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >>From: Tian, Kevin
> >>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:55 AM
> >>
> >>>From: John Byrne [mailto:john.l.byrne@xxxxxx]
> >>>
> >>>I've gotten blkfront/blkback to work based on your patches and
> >>>re-merging Matt's changes to them before the xen-unstable 
> merge. I'm
> >>>trying to get the netback/netfront drivers to come up, 
> now. I'll have
> >>
> >>to
> >>
> >>>clean up some debugging before I can generate a patch. I 
> will generate
> >>
> >>a
> >>
> >>>patch that is added in addition to your hg_cleanup_0831 patches.
> >>
> >>Good to know that.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, I just checked the previous repository before latest 
> merge, and it
> > seems that netback/netfront drivers were disabled in 
> Makefile before.
> > (Please confirm)  If netback/netfront doesn't work before, 
> it means that
> > we already reach the same point as previous if you can 
> login into shell.
> > And then we may manage to push out current fixes in first. Then
> > netback/netfront will be taken as a subsequent welcome 
> feature to go...
> > comments?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > 
> 
> Yes, netfront/netback were not being built. (Note that this 
> has the side 
> effect of "xend start" screwing up your networking because the new 
> network-bridge script doesn't handle the case without a veth0 
> interface 
> correctly. The easiest hack is to put in a dummy 
> network-bridge script 
> for the moment.) So as soon as blkfront/blkback work, things 
> are as good 
> as they were before the xen-unstable merge, AFAIK.
> 
> As a learning experience, I was working on porting Matt's changes to 
> netfront/netback and things got snarled up because of the differences 
> between xen-unstable and xen-ia64. Now that we are synched, I hope 
> things can be finished now.
> 
> Probably another 1/2 hour for my patches.
> 
> John Byrne
> 
> 
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