Re: [Xen-devel] How many patches are missing in upstream Linux?

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 06/03/2014 11:38, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
> > > > On 06.03.14 at 06:21, "Zhang, Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you know how many features or patches are still missing in upstream
> > Linux? I know some of them, like hugepage support, TS bit issue and PAT
> > issue. But I guess I only known part of them. Is there any wiki page to track
> > that information?
> A few more that I know of:
>
> - EFI
> - user mode accessible PV clock
> - runtime microcode loading
> - support for running with more than 1Tb (XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M)
>    (but afaict there are also shortcomings needing fixing in the tools
>    when going beyond 512Gb)
> - support for using huge initrd (XEN_ELFNOTE_MOD_START_PFN)
> - blktap (or a suitable replacement thereof)
> - pvSCSI
> - pvUSB
> - perf/oprof
>
> Plus various smaller items where e.g. certain special drivers need
> adjustments to work right in dom0 (dcdbas, dell_rbu, coretemp,
> via-cputemp, msr).
>
> Also I'm not certain whether the MSI-X issue that was found a while
> ago is meanwhile fully fixed.
One msi problem is still present and I have not found a solution, last 
mail with details is here:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg00192.html
Can somebody help me about it please?

Thanks for any reply.

> Jan
>
>
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