Re: [Xen-devel] scsi passthrough in pvops kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:25:49AM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> > 
> > On 09/24/09 05:58, James Harper wrote:
> > >> Not done yet. You volunteering for it :-)
> > >>
> > > I can probably make it compile (just did with pvusb :) but can't
> test it
> > > too thoroughly at this point.
> > >
> > 
> > Do you have some pvusb patches for me?  Send them over and I'll stick
> > them in.
> > 
> 
> Noboru sent me a pre-release copy of his next release. He will be
> officially releasing sometime soon so I'll wait until then if he hasn't
> ported them already. With my updates the drivers compile under the pvops
> kernel but they call usb_buffer_free with interrupts disabled and
> dma_free_coherent doesn't like it (billions of warnings logged).
> 
> Are you interested in putting in usbback (and scsiback - I'll do that
> shortly if nobody else does) without the corresponding frontend drivers?
> My main focus is the Windows GPLPV frontend drivers so the Linux
> frontend drivers aren't a priority for me at this point... I can
> probably convert scsifront as scsi drivers are pretty basic but a lot of
> this usb stuff still baffles me :)
> 

Did you have time to take a look at usbback/scsiback? :)

-- Pasi


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