Re: Re: [Fedora-xen] Is pci-pasthrough enabled for F9 DomU?
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:51:10PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> >On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> >>Sadly that's life with Xen. Upstream Xen has basically stopped all
> >>kernel development leaving 'official' Xen kernels stuck on 2.6.28
which is
> >>essentially useless for any modern distro. We had the choice between
> >>trying
> >>to finish off the paravirt_ops port, or dropping Xen entirely :-(
> >>
> >
> >What's this? Xen kernel development has stopped? What does that mean -
> >is the GPL project dead?
>
> Not at all.
>
> In fact, I'd strongly disagree with Daniel's characterisation that Xen
> has "stopped all kernel development" Redhat need to "finish off"
the
> paravirt_ops port. I've been working on it full time for the last
> couple of years, and have done the vast majority of the work needed to
> get paravirt_ops working.
>
> Redhat have contributed valuable work in areas like the paravirtual
> framebuffer device, and are working on 64-bit and dom0 support. But all
> of that is based on the work I've been doing on paravirt-ops
> infrastructure itself and the Xen implementation which uses it.
>
Which reminds me that would be really nice to get a binary rpm for kernel-xen
with dom0 patches in it to try it and start reporting bugs.. :)
This is intended to go into rawhide sometime in the reasonably near
future, now that the critical F9 kerne-xen bugs have mostly been ironed
out.
Dan.
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