Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libxc: add suport for NetBSD gntdev

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 10:19 +0000, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On 05/02/13 11:08, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 13:20 +0000, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> Add OS specific handlers for NetBSD gntdev. The main difference is
> >> that NetBSD passes the VA where the grant should be set inside the
> >> IOCTL_GNTDEV_MAP_GRANT_REF ioctl, instead of using mmap (this is due
> >> to OS constraints).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Did the kernel side of this go into NetBSD in the end?
> 
> No, the kernel side only worked with PV guests, it failed to map grant
> refs from HVM guests. Solving this requires quite a lot of changes in
> the code, which right now I don't have time to perform, so hold on the
> libxc/libxl changes for now.

Ack, thanks!

Ian.



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