Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-26 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:25 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:58 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > Which it is on real hardware, because although it's not *reserved* > > (type 2), it is certainly not made available as *normal memory* (type > > 1). If Xen maps this as type 1

[PATCH] xen: Module autoprobing support for frontend drivers

2008-02-22 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Add module aliases to support autoprobing modules for xen frontend devices. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |1 + drivers/net/xen-netfront.c|1 + drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 27 +-- 3

[PATCH] xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers

2008-02-22 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Before getting merged, xen-blkfront was xenblk and xen-netfront was xennet. Temporarily adding compatibility module aliases eases upgrades from older versions by e.g. allowing mkinitrd to find the new version of the module. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:34 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the > > > opportun

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the > opportunity to extract the ELF file. Right, Xen currently can't boot bzImage (it needs the ELF image) so you still can't use the same kernel image on Xen as bare-met

short doc on kernel symbols and modversions

2001-03-13 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hi, after quite a bit of pain in the past figuring out how this all works and some questions on the kernelnewbies list recently I decided to do my best to document it. http://www.skynet.ie/~mark/home/kernel/symbols.html any comments are welcome.. Cheers, Mark - To unsubscribe from