linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] Linux pvops: early PV on HVM

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100304131520.GT2761@reaktio.net>
Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:15:20 +0200
From:	Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>
To:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
Cc:	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] Linux pvops: early PV on HVM

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:44:04AM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:30:18PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > this patch is derived from an earler version of the patch named "Xen PV
> > > extension of HVM initialization" in Shen's patch series.
> > > This patch:
> > > 
> > > - initializes basic pv on hvm features in xen_guest_init; 
> > > 
> > 
> > Are you planning to make pv-on-hvm disk/net frontends also
> > work for HVM guests running 2.6.3x pvops kernels? 
> > 
> 
> Yes, that what I meant.
> Even though many things are still missing in the patch series, this
> feature works already in last version I sent.
>

Oh, nice. pv-on-hvm support has been missing for a long time
from upstream kernel.org kernels.

Redhat guys will be interested of this aswell.. 
they're planning to have Xen pv-on-hvm drivers for rhel6.

-- Pasi

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/