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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 8] Xen-side netchannel2 patches, take two

To: steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 8] Xen-side netchannel2 patches, take two
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:28:40 +0300
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:35:42PM +0100, steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This patch series includes all of the Xen and tools bits of
> netchannel2.  It's essentially similar to the one I posted on Sunday,
> except:
> 
> -- I've dropped the unmodified drivers support.  It'd probably be
>    fairly straightforward to re-introduce it, but it's not clear that
>    anyone's actually using unmodified drivers any more (they don't
>    even build against a 2.6.27 kernel, for instance).

At least Redhat/Fedora guys have been thinking of shipping pv-on-hvm Xen
drivers for Fedora 12 / RHEL6.. But I don't know what's the status of that.

There's also a note about it on Xen Wiki:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

"Work in progress: pv-on-hvm driver support "

dunno about the status of that either :)

-- Pasi


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