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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Brief TLS/PAE/xenbus/AGP/Debian/VCS questions
> What's happending with the TLS issue? Is /lib/tls still harmful? There
> was talk of a glibc patch - did that ever progress anywhere? Did
> making it work require changes to Xen as well as glibc?
Not harmful but slower. There is a glibc patch, which you can apply if you
want (the nicest would be for a distro to ship it). The glibc people weren't
interested in merging it.
Won't be an issue of x86_64, or any other arch.
> PAE support seems to be progressing nicely. Great work! Some mails
> seem to be saying matter of factly that it will be in Xen 3.0 - this
> is great news.
That's the plan.
> There are news of AGP/DRM fixes in 2.0.6. Last time my nForce2 chipset
> fell over by the lack of secondary devices (the bridges) as they were
> hidden by Xen. I guess this is still the case in 2.0.
AGP etc should work now (modulo buggy drivers).
bridges still hidden, AFAIK. see below...
> Is the new
> PCI/ACPI/etc. code now in unstable? Does that mean that the bridge
> devices should now show up normally and I could new try to get AGPGART
> support working?
Bridges should now appear.
> How far along is xenbus right now? I'm particularily interested in a
> local communication channel between domain 0 and other domains that
> would not be a network interface. Better console support would be
> really nice as well, but in the end that is a secondary concern. What
> remains to be done?
Getting there. Grep for XenBus and XenStore in the unstable tree. Others may
have mroe precise news.
> Is anyone making Debian packages of the unstable branch code? If not,
> I guess I will roll my own. The stable packages are still at 2.0.5 in
> the Debian archive, but I guess they will get to 2.0.6 once Adam Heath
> gets a breather from his work.
I think a few people had agreed to co-operate to make this happen. We're very
keen to maintain the good support Debian has had for Xen.
> The VCS issue is still open I guess? I'm not allowed to use BitKeeper
> anyway, so this is good news to me in a way. But I guess I will keep
> on using the nightly source snapshots until a change has been made.
Switching to Mercurial today. After tomorrow, we'll never use BK again :-)
> And lastly - roadmap says Xen 3.0 in July - now that would be quite
> soon indeed.
More like 3.0-testing in July.
> That's it for now. This questionnaire is here just if someone happens
> to have the time to fill me in - I will do my own digging if not.
HTH,
Mark
> TIA,
> -- Naked
>
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