Paravirt-ops VMI / Xen / lrustyvisor merge status

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On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:28 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> So, as 2.6.21-rc1 is approaching, what is the upstream merge status for 
> the paravirt-ops backends?  I believe VMI is in Andi's tree, plus or 
> minus some bugfixes that are still being whittled in, but Andi, do you 
> think the VMI code is in good shape for merging?
> 
> It would be nice for everyone to clarify their upstream plans - is the 
> goal still to get Xen and lguest merged for the next kernel release?
> 
> Rusty, you mentioned you had a patchset to push, when do you expect to 
> have it ready?

I'm just doing the final file moving now (everything in
arch/i386/lguest), expect to send out something within 48 hours (I need
to sync up to latest git tree, too).

> One of which is separating the paravirt-ops into GPL 
> and non-GPL exports, which we need consensus on where the line is, but 
> can't really achieve it until everyone is happy with the finalized set 
> of paravirt-ops.  Any patch that tries to do this now would just cause 
> rejects later and slow all of our merges.

Yes, I have a patch, but it breaks kvm.  I'm waiting until things settle
before fixing it.

Cheers,
Rusty.




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