On Friday 04 August 2006 20:34, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Chris said, and I agree, that we should try to get the basic PV-ops > infrastructure stuff into 2.6.19. To me this means being able to run a > kernel native with CONFIG_PARAVIRT, and see little or no functional or > performance degradation. What do we need to do to get there: > > * fix the slowdown bug, which seems to be something to do with > rdmsr/wrmsr on SMP systems > * work out how to handle all the low-level system interfaces, like > ACPI, PnP BIOS, APM > * what else? You're already too late for most of this. The merge window will open in the forseeable future and you don't have had significant -mm* or x86_64-* testing yet and in general stuff is still very fresh. Maybe we can get some basic "obvious" stuff like a few macro substitutions in (if you submit them properly), but probably not the full support. -Andi
