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Re: [Xen-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen



On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-11-11 04:49, Tan, Jianfeng:
> > Hi Thomas and Konrad,
> > 
> > On 11/11/2016 2:59 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > >> 2016-11-07 07:38, Jianfeng Tan:
> > >>> As some users are still using xen as the hypervisor, I suggest to
> > >>> continue support for xen in DPDK. And from 16.11, I will be the
> > >>> maintainer of all xen-related files.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Applied
> > >>
> > >> Please Jianfeng, could you start your new role by sending a status
> > >> of Xen dom0 support in DPDK? I think there are some issues in latest 
> > >> releases.
> > 
> > Yes, I'm on this. And hope to send out update in the next week.
> > 
> > > Pls also CC me and xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if possible.
> > 
> > Glad to do that.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jianfeng
> 
> Any news about Xen dom0 status in DPDK?
> 
> I think there is not enough interest for Xen dom0 in the DPDK community.
> Last time we talked about, it was because of a severe bug which is not
> fixed yet:
>       http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html
>       http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044376.html
> 
> The request (6 month ago) was to give more time for feedbacks:
>       http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044847.html
> 
> Is it time now to officially remove Dom0 support?

So we do have an prototype implementation of netback but it is waiting
for review of xen-devel to the spec.

And I believe the implementation does utilize some of the dom0
parts of code in DPDK.

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