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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] unmodified_drivers: update README from http://wiki.x

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] unmodified_drivers: update README from http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/UnmodifiedDrivers
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:18:49 +0100
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# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1319645918 -3600
# Node ID 36b5adb30766e16a1a3a4e900b3219f9fc7c40ed
# Parent  80c36c519e89e9ee487c94d80ac94fe216f3cdbc
unmodified_drivers: update README from 
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/UnmodifiedDrivers

Add reference to the fact that these drivers are for "classic-Xen" kernels only
and do not work with PVops but point towards the PVHVM functionality in
mainstream.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 80c36c519e89 -r 36b5adb30766 unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README
--- a/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README       Wed Oct 26 17:06:34 2011 +0100
+++ b/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README       Wed Oct 26 17:18:38 2011 +0100
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-To build:
+These drivers provide paravirtualised drivers for pre-PVops Linux
+kernels which have the classic-Xen patches applied. They do not work
+with kernels which are not patched with the classic-Xen patches. In
+particular this includes all PVops kernels.
 
-1. ./mkbuildtree [<arch>]
+For 2.6.36 and newer you should use the "PVHVM" functionality which is
+available in the mainline kernel.
+
+To build do one of:
+
+   ./mkbuildtree [<arch>]
    NB. You can override paths to Xen sources and a (stub) XenLinux
        build tree via the XEN and XL environment variable.
 
-2. make -C /path/to/kernel/build M=$PWD modules
+- or -
+   make -C /path/to/kernel/build M=$PWD modules
    NB. This is your native kernel build tree (or a distro provided
        stub), not the XenLinux sources referred to in step 1.
    NB. If you are cross compiling, you need to set ARCH and

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