Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branches / pvops kernel pvusb support

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 03/18/2010 04:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:29:14AM +0900, Noboru Iwamatsu wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> >
> >      
> > > On 03/04/2010 11:24 AM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > >        
> > > > Are there any signs of pv-usb support coming ?
> > > >          
> > > I have not seen any work in that area.
> > >
> > >        
> > In the jump between 2.6.18 and current kernel,
> > several important changes are required for handling
> > the urbs and its buffers.
> > Because, the manner of the host controller and the
> > urb's behavior have been modified on the upstream.
> >
> > I'm now working on it, I hope I can post it in late
> > this month.
> >
> >      
> Btw Novell seems to have a forward-port of the pvusb stuff
> to their 2.6.32 xenlinux kernel (non pvops).
>
> See:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00723.html
>
> Dunno if it helps with the pvops port though :)
>    
It should do in the sense that that kind of driver stuff doesn't have 
much dependency on pvops vs non-pvops.  Other things may be different 
which could complicate things (and ideally we'd like to take things that 
a close to upstreamable).
    J

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