Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7 pvops dom0 kernels

[Mario <mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/16/2011 03:09 PM, Mario wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 03:06 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:04 +0100, Mario wrote:
> > > So you are telling me that 2.6.38 does not have a working networking on
> > > PV guests, but HVM does?
> > Yes, netback did not go upstream until 2.6.39 so PV networking (either
> > for PV or HVM guests with PV drivers) will not work on mainline kernels
> > before that.
> >
> > Emulated HVM networking does not use netback so that will work on
> > earlier kernels (it depends on qemu)
> >
> > Ian.
> Ok, thanks, it all makes more sense now. :-)

Ian, while i have your attention, any idea why some framebuffer devices 
blank screen when dom0 boots up. I have seen this happen mostly on older 
vga cards but its not a rule. Should i just keep on blacklisting kernel 
modules for those cards, or is there some kind of a more general solution?
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