Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:55:29 -0500 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r256423 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront Message-ID: <52D800F1.7060706@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <528E87FA.7010902@egr.msu.edu> References: <201310130234.r9D2YKs2034280@svn.freebsd.org> <528E8272.1010301@egr.msu.edu> <528E87FA.7010902@egr.msu.edu>
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On 11/21/2013 17:23, Adam McDougall wrote: > On 11/21/2013 17:00, Adam McDougall wrote: >> On 10/12/2013 22:34, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >>> Author: gibbs >>> Date: Sun Oct 13 02:34:20 2013 >>> New Revision: 256423 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256423 >>> >>> Log: >>> Allow FreeBSD to be booted from CDROM media on XenServer 6.2 and >>> prior releases. >>> >>> Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné >>> Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D >>> Reviewed by: gibbs >>> Approved by: re (gjb) >>> >>> sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c: >>> On XenServer versions up to an including 6.2, paravirtualized >>> CDROM support is broken. When running in an HVM domain, >>> ignore paravirtualized instances of CDROM media, and instead >>> rely on native drivers attaching to emulated hardware. This >>> functions correctly on all currently known Xen based >>> platforms. >> >> Can this pretty please be MFC'ed for 10.0? I haven't heard of any >> problems with it, only successes on freebsd-xen@freebsd.org (thread: >> "FreeBSD Alpha5 amd64 - Citrix Xen 6.2 problem"). Thanks! > > Oops nevermind! Mark clued me in to r256757 which is in BETA 3. Thanks > again. > Is it safe to MFC this for 9 as well? I checked to verify it doesn't seem to be there: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c?revision=251973&view=markup I think Mark has been using a local patch for a while. Thanks.
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