Re: MI Xen drivers (was: Re: [patch] x86_*fence replaced by membar_ops(3))

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Friday 16 January 2009 17:37:02 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 05:30:55PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > Looks good, but did you try building XEN2 kernels ? I can't see the
> > > xen_*mb() macros defined for xen2. I think defining them in
> > > include/xen-public/xen.h should be enough.
> >
> > Or it is time to remove xen2 in -current. I will do that past when the
> > first RC of netbsd 5 is out.
>
> No please. It's not good useage to remove support because we're
> leasy writing 3 lines of code to make it work !
> We did promise there would be PCI passthough support for xen3 before
> xen2 would get dropped, and we should try very hard to make it so.
> (I may even start working on it in the next few days).

We made no such promise. Check the mail archive on this list.
We only agreed to wait at least for the first RC.

Christoph