[Xen-devel] Re: Dom0 pvops kernel booting: release dom0-2.6.24-B0

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:47 +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> I've substantially cleaned up the Xen contiguous region handling and the
> pfn/mfn translations in the dma mapping layer, and rebased everything
> cleanly on top of v2.6.24.  The resulting patch queue can be viewed as
> tag "dom0-2.6.24-B0" on the dom0-pvops git tree
...
> Support for the dom0 xend userland is still missing, and there is no
> swiotlb yet; but the dom0 kernel boots successfully on a HV and I've had
> a best uptime of nearly an hour so far.

Just to add to that status: all the normal kernel device drivers I've
tried seem to be working with this release --- usb, network and disk.  X
is still known NOT to work, but that's not top priority to deal with.

Next steps include:

      * Making sure domU runs correctly with the same kernel
      * Cleaning up the apic handling to be pvops-friendly, so the same
        kernel also boots on baremetal (all the code except for apic
        should be OK already)
      * Adding the necessary /dev and /proc support for xend
      * Tracking 2.6.25-pre

At some point we'll also want to start tracking the xen-64 bit work,
too.

--Stephen



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel