Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Community effort neededtocatch upwithxen-unstable

[John Byrne <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx>]

Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Tian, Kevin
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:55 AM
> >
> > > From: John Byrne [mailto:john.l.byrne@xxxxxx]
> > >
> > > I've gotten blkfront/blkback to work based on your patches and
> > > re-merging Matt's changes to them before the xen-unstable merge. I'm
> > > trying to get the netback/netfront drivers to come up, now. I'll have
> > to
> >
> > > clean up some debugging before I can generate a patch. I will generate
> > a
> >
> > > patch that is added in addition to your hg_cleanup_0831 patches.
> > Good to know that.
>
>
> BTW, I just checked the previous repository before latest merge, and it
> seems that netback/netfront drivers were disabled in Makefile before.
> (Please confirm)  If netback/netfront doesn't work before, it means that
> we already reach the same point as previous if you can login into shell.
> And then we may manage to push out current fixes in first. Then
> netback/netfront will be taken as a subsequent welcome feature to go...
> comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
Yes, netfront/netback were not being built. (Note that this has the side 
effect of "xend start" screwing up your networking because the new 
network-bridge script doesn't handle the case without a veth0 interface 
correctly. The easiest hack is to put in a dummy network-bridge script 
for the moment.) So as soon as blkfront/blkback work, things are as good 
as they were before the xen-unstable merge, AFAIK.
As a learning experience, I was working on porting Matt's changes to 
netfront/netback and things got snarled up because of the differences 
between xen-unstable and xen-ia64. Now that we are synched, I hope 
things can be finished now.
Probably another 1/2 hour for my patches.

John Byrne


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