Re: [Xen-devel] newer dom0 kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:44:19PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 September 2009 14:10:09 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:05:55PM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> > > Some weeks (months?) back I think I remember discussion about starting
> > > to focus on a newer Linux kernel for dom0, and about a hg tree for it,
> > > but now I can't find the discussion. Is there a hg tree for this yet or
> > > did I imagine the whole thing?
> >
> > xen-unstable switched to using pv_ops dom0 kernel (git tree).
> 
> From which version will the mainstream kernel have dom0 support?
> Every time I check it only has domU support.
> 

Well, pv_ops based dom0 patches are still under development to get them
less intrusive and acceptable to upstream Linux kernel.

If you want to help feel free to contribute. Just a couple of days ago 
Jeremy announced the new xen/master tree, which people should test,
and hopefully send patches against.

This is the work that will be sent for upstream inclusion later.

-- Pasi


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