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Re: [xen-devel][PATCH] PV driver compatibility



On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:45:06AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 22/01/2010 08:43, "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> My default action right now will be to add a module option to specify
> >> selective or complete flushing, keep the patch, but only fail to load
> >> drivers if flush is requested but not possible, otherwise just warn.
> > 
> > Sounds good, what will the default flush setting be?
> > 
> > Could you swap out the 0xdead and 0xbeef for the defines which are
> > specified right above the function in question while you are there?
> 
> Proposed patch is attached. It'd be good if someone could at least
> build-test it -- I can't seem to work out how to build PV-on-HVM drivers any
> more, against my stock selection of native kernels.
> 

Maybe this blog post helps:

"building unmodified_drivers":
http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=653

That's about the SLES11 2.6.27 kernel.

-- Pasi


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