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Re: Xen dom0 2.6.32 stable branch



On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 15:42 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:53:09PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:39 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > Already on it. It seems to need a hypervisor update as well.
> > I believe this branch needs either Xen 4.0 or 3.4 with a patch
> > backported for the new dom0 APIC interfaces, I think that it is in
> > xen-3.4-testing.hg but not an actual release yet. Do you need me to find
> > the patch in question?
> 
> It looks like this is the setup_gsi command, which is in 3.4.3-rc2.

Yes, I think it's: 
        changeset:   19862:608ebc959c35
        user:        Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
        date:        Tue Dec 22 11:37:01 2009 +0000
        files:       xen/arch/x86/mpparse.c xen/arch/x86/physdev.c xen/include/public/physdev.h
        description:
        x86: Add a new physdev_op PHYSDEVOP_setup_gsi for GSI setup.
        
        GSI 0-15 is setup by hypervisor, and GSI > =16 is setup by dom0
        this physdev_op PHYSDEVOP_setup_gsi. This patch can help dom0
        to get rid of intrusive changes of ioapic.
        
        Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
        xen-unstable changeset:   20491:d44371e6e5d6
        xen-unstable date:        Tue Nov 24 14:43:07 2009 +0000

which applies cleanly to the existing 3.4.2-2 package. (BTW did you get
my mails to pkg-xen-devel?)

> > Once you are at the point at which additional testing etc is useful
> > please let me know, I'd be glad to give it a go!
> 
> http://hermes.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~blank/debian/xen-test/
> 
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Thanks, will give them a go (including the subsequent update you posted)

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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