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| author | Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> | 2012-05-14 16:49:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> | 2012-05-14 16:49:24 +0100 |
| commit | d39dc34391a3620496269510711299b6949abc48 (patch) | |
| tree | 8537ed7003272284a816c509a1db44e28df0f5f6 | |
| parent | f93463e9ba6799596d371afb661773e39d2f0e56 (diff) | |
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unmodified_drivers: update README from
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/UnmodifiedDrivers
Add reference to the fact that these drivers are for "classic-Xen"
kernels only
and do not work with PVops but point towards the PVHVM functionality
in
mainstream.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
xen-unstable changeset: 24045:4ed766d70396
xen-unstable date: Wed Oct 26 17:44:03 2011 +0100
| -rw-r--r-- | unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README b/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README index 527384c581..1d673eb50a 100644 --- a/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README +++ b/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ -To build: +These drivers provide paravirtualised drivers for pre-PVops Linux +kernels which have the classic-Xen patches applied. They do not work +with kernels which are not patched with the classic-Xen patches. In +particular this includes all PVops kernels. -1. ./mkbuildtree [<arch>] +For 2.6.36 and newer you should use the "PVHVM" functionality which is +available in the mainline kernel. + +To build do one of: + + ./mkbuildtree [<arch>] NB. You can override paths to Xen sources and a (stub) XenLinux build tree via the XEN and XL environment variable. -2. make -C /path/to/kernel/build M=$PWD modules +- or - + make -C /path/to/kernel/build M=$PWD modules NB. This is your native kernel build tree (or a distro provided stub), not the XenLinux sources referred to in step 1. NB. If you are cross compiling, you need to set ARCH and |