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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] PVH questions
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > I've had a look at PVH support, and I have a few questions: > > - events are still dispatched the PV way through the callback, right? No, they are injected as an X86 vector (0xf3). > - I guess FPU errors don't trigger an INT13, so I don't need to handle > that? I think that's right, but Mukesh can confirm this. > - How about the console and store MFNs from the boot info? Are they > still MFNs, or actually PFNs? PFNs > - How about PV network in non-copy mode? It used to be done > with a page transfer, which the frontend would free, does > XENMEM_decrease_reservation still use MFNs, or PFNs? PFNs Mukesh, did I get it right? Would you be up for writing down these basic pieces of information regarding the PVH interface on a wiki page? So that other kernel hackers like Samuel can port their favourite open source kernel to it? Maybe add something about the shared_info page and the grant_table too. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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