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Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>, xen@FreeBSD.org
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On 29/08/13 21:15, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>> I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head.  The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here:
>>
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff
>>
>> I will continue my testing today and commit it tonight unless I hear complaints.  Comments, corrections, improvements, and bug reports welcome.
> 
> Could this patch be split into functional and non-functional components?  It's
> distracting having everything mixed up together in a single megapatch.  Even
> committing the s/unlikely/__predict_false/ separately would help.
> 
> How do you intend to have Xen HVM work in the GENERIC kernel configuration?
> Will you be adding 'options XENHVM' to GENERIC?

I'm currently working on this, I expect to have a patch ready tomorrow
(I still have to test it on bare metal).

Roger.