linux-kernel - Re:Re:[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and improvements

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Date:	Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:17:04 +0000
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	topperxin <topperxin@....com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: Re:Re:[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and
 improvements

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, topperxin wrote:
> At 2011-03-03 23:05:09，"Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, topperxin wrote:
> >> Hi stefano,
> >> 
> >>    It's very great of your work.I think it't useful 
> >> to me, I have checked it out, and I will study it.
> >>   What I care mostly is the pv-on-hvm drivers, now 
> >> my main work is port pvonhvm drivers to various guest
> >> OS, no matter what OS version, such as ubuntu 10.10, 
> >> debian 505 etc. But I found this work is difficult & 
> >> boring to me, I can't find a general method which can 
> >> easily port the pvonhvm drivers to all kinds guest os.
> >> Do you have any good ideas?
> >
> >PV on HVM is upstream now, so it is just a matter of time before all the
> >distros will have a kernel that supports PV on HVM out of the box.
> >
> >
> >>    I found there are not platform-pci source in your 
> >> project, as we know, in the old pvonhvm drivers version,
> >> platform-pci module is important, it was used to establish
> >> the communication mechanism, such as xenbus, evtchn,etc, 
> >> could you please tell me how can you get rid of it? and how 
> >> can you substitute platform-pci, with which?
> >
> >Yes there is:
> >drivers/xen/platform-pci.c
> 
> 1.sorry, I can't find platform-pci.c in your release source.
> 2.6.38-rc5-pvhvm
> 2.another question is when I make; make install under 2.6.38-rc5-pvhvm
> I found the version number change from 2.6.38 to 2.6.34 under 
> /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc1
> why?

you must be working on the wrong tree :)