RE: [Xen-devel] How to port network driver?

["Paul K. Fisher" <pfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Note also that we hope fairly soon (within the next few months) to
> move all device drivers into "I/O domains" running outside of Xen in
> ring 1. At that point we will hopefully be able to run Linux device
> drivers unmodified, so this porting pain will no longer be necessary
> :-)
>
> We could add a few more dummy header files to make the job even
> easier, but since we're planning on moving to a new IO scheme we
> haven't put much effort into this.

These notes are from a two months ago at this point.  Any status on this
effort, or at least when this work could become part of an unstable branch?


paul



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