[PATCH v2 10/23] xen/arm: compile and run xenbus

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Thu Aug 9 12:54:24 EDT 2012


> > Right, the original patch didn't break anything with PV domains. The case
> > it doesn't handle is an HVM initial domain with an already-running
> > Xenstore domain; I think this applies both to ARM and hybrid/PVH on x86.
> > In that case, usage would be set to LOCAL instead of HVM.
> 
> 
> Right, however if I am not mistaken there is no such thing as an HVM
> dom0 right now on x86 and hybrid/PVH is probably going to return true on
> xen_pv_domain() and false on xen_hvm_domain().

The other way around.  HVM = true, PV = false.

Mukesh, correct me if I am wrong pls.
> 
> In the ARM case, given that we don't have a start_info page, we would
> need another way to figure out whether a xenstore stub domain is already
> running, so I think we can just postpone the solution of that problem
> for now.



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