Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/04] HVM firmware passthrough

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross Philipson writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/04] HVM firmware 
passthrough"):
> I am not sure if that is related to my patches. I had brought up the point
> that the new xc_hvm_build() routine was never called from xl. I think the
> consensus was that I should remedy that in the process of adding the support
> for fw pass-through.

I think in general it is best to introduce new features in the whole
stack in the same series.

That way we don't introduce code at lower layers only to discover
later that the higher layer wants something different.

> I planned to do xl after the first patch set went in - are there any vetoes
> to that plan? Also since I will be adding parameters I suspect I need to
> update the docs on the xl configuration files. Any pointers on how to do that
> would be helpful. I see the man page source in docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5; is
> the wiki information generated off of this?

How are you testing this series yourself if you don't have a suitable
series for libxl/xl as well ?

Ian.

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