On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I've just committed a change to enable a patch (previously added by
> maks) which adds suspend/resume and ballooning to the -xen flavour of
> the i386 kernel.
thank you very much!
> Looking through it I notice that the changesets which touch non-Xen code
> are completely optional. Therefore I propose to strip them out and move
> the patch to the main series file, applying it for all flavours. This
> will have the benefit of enabling these features in the -bigmem-686
> kernel which is(/will be) used by the Xen flavour of the installer. The
> stripped down patch is attached (still needs testing). diffstat is at
> the end of this mail.
>
> The only change to generic code which I propose leaving in is the
> changes to kernel/printk.c and include/linux/console.h from
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commit;h=9e124fe16ff24746d6de5a2ad685266d7bce0e08
> commit 9e124fe16ff24746d6de5a2ad685266d7bce0e08
>
> xen: Enable console tty by default in domU if it's not a
> dummy
>
> which are completely trivial.
>
> Any objections?
>
> The changesets which I will remove from the patch are below. Note that
> they aren't actually especially scary and don't make a functional
> difference to generic code (since they just add hooks where the default
> is the current behaviour). If there is consensus I'd be reasonably happy
> to leave them in...
ack from me for both ways, letting you decide
as all of those patches are upstream.
kind regards
--
maks