From bc6ffdf6b4f4d91c8f56ab66c9026c1c3fd3c679 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:44:03 +0100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Ian Jackson Committed-by: Ian Jackson --- unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/README | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'unmodified_drivers') 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 [] +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 [] 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 -- cgit v1.2.3