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| author | Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> | 2011-10-26 17:44:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> | 2011-10-26 17:44:03 +0100 |
| commit | bc6ffdf6b4f4d91c8f56ab66c9026c1c3fd3c679 (patch) | |
| tree | 713863124459f164fbfd82b23fc12ab6076feadb /unmodified_drivers | |
| parent | eee42df5c15ee9cee07b801f80b2c26f75e2defd (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>
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| -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 |