[Pkg-xen-devel] unmodified_drivers DKMS package

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:58:53AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:00 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: 
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:55:07AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:19 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: 
> > > > Hey folks,
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to get a .deb of the unmodified_drivers put together.  I just
> > > > filed ITP, and I would love to have your help with it.
> > > > 
> > > > http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=653
> > > > 
> > > > I've never built a kernel package before, nor have I used DKMS, so it's
> > > > going to be a bumpy ride for me.
> > > > 
> > > > Do any of you have experience with these tools?  Have you built the
> > > > unmodified_drivers modules recently?  Would I be able to get this
> > > > package into the xen-3 source package?
> > > > 
> > > > http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/xen-3
> > > > 
> > > > Looking forward to your responses,
> > > 
> > > I already replied to the ITP but I guess it is worth repeating myself in
> > > this thread:
> > > 
> > > > This would be very cool but: As far as I know the existing unmodified
> > > > drivers (sometimes called PVonHVM drivers) do not work with the
> > > > paravirt_ops kernel which will be in Squeeze.
> > > > 
> > > > However, there is someone upstream who is working on making the
> > > > PVonHVM functionality available directly in the upstream kernel.org
> > > > tree so that, eventually, a separate set of additional drivers will
> > > > not be required.
> > > 
> > > I'd definitely confirm that you really are able to compile the
> > > unmodified drivers by hand against the 2.6.32 kernel in Squeeze before
> > > digging into packaging anything up.
> > > 
> > 
> > Novell has unmodified_drivers working for their 2.6.32 (SLES11 SP1) kernel.
> > Their stuff is not pvops based.
> 
> Those drivers would still need extracting from that 2.6.32 tree and made
> to work as an out of tree driver, either as a standalone driver pack or
> by updating the unmodified_drivers tree in xen-unstable.hg.
> 
> Perhaps they could be ported across and incorporated into the Squeeze
> kernel directly. This would be at the discretion of the debian-kernel
> maintainers and the general rule is that the driver must be already
> accepted upstream which these drivers are not.
> 
> In any case I think my point, that someone needs to make this thing work
> at all before worrying about how to package it, still stands.
> 
> Ian.
> 

Andrew Lyon actually figured out how to build them.. would still need cleaning up
to make the build process easier.

-- Pasi