Re: [Xen-users] Basic Xen Question

[Julius Spencer <julius@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

Essentially I have a binary driver. There are only  a few OS's which it 
works under. Unfortunately IBM say that they don't have much 'swing' in 
getting their suppliers to open source the driver and Adaptec seem to 
have made it impossible to make contact with them unless you have bought 
 from them directly.
If I could patch the kernel which comes with the distro so it was 
"xenified" ( :) ) then perhaps I could continue to use the same driver.
In this case, as it is a RAID type of device I'll have to opt to use 
software RAID.
Thank you again for the reply.

Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sylvain Coutant [mailto:sco@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 16 May 2006 12:02
> > To: Petersson, Mats; 'Julius Spencer'; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Basic Xen Question
> >
> > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to patch an older kernel (eg. 
> > > > 2.6.9) so it can be compiled to run as a Xen kernel (dom0)?
> > > Now, my question is: Why would you want that?
> > ie, just because one have some other patches to apply against 
> > the kernel. It can sometimes be a true nightmare to set up a 
> > full dom0+domU which includes every tool one need :-(
> Ok, fair enough. You'd just have to look at which patches are the
> biggest - and I think Xen is quite intrusive, so unless your other
> patches are also touching a lot of files in the kernel, I would suspect
> that porting the other patches would be easier... 
>
> --
> Mats
> > --
> > Sylvain
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