Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support

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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:45:25PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0200, jgross@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use physical
> > SCSI devices from a XEN domain.
> > 
> > The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real
> > I/O and a frontend in the unprivileged domU passing I/O-requests to the backend.
> > 
> > The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done
> > for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu.
> > 
> 
> Great! 
> 
> I added James Harper to CC, I know he has a port of at least scsiback aswell,
> and he has a PVSCSI frontend driver included in the GPLPV Windows Xen PV drivers.
> 
> Btw do these patches also include the "latest" PVSCSI fixes/enhancements done in the SuSe/SLES kernel?
> (for example the RESERVE/RELEASE support).
> 

Never mind, I noticed that RESERVE/RELEASE are included in the xen-scsiback driver patch.

-- Pasi

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