Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:00:18 -0500 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r256423 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront Message-ID: <528E8272.1010301@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <201310130234.r9D2YKs2034280@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201310130234.r9D2YKs2034280@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 10/12/2013 22:34, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Author: gibbs > Date: Sun Oct 13 02:34:20 2013 > New Revision: 256423 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256423 > > Log: > Allow FreeBSD to be booted from CDROM media on XenServer 6.2 and > prior releases. > > Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné > Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D > Reviewed by: gibbs > Approved by: re (gjb) > > sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c: > On XenServer versions up to an including 6.2, paravirtualized > CDROM support is broken. When running in an HVM domain, > ignore paravirtualized instances of CDROM media, and instead > rely on native drivers attaching to emulated hardware. This > functions correctly on all currently known Xen based > platforms. Can this pretty please be MFC'ed for 10.0? I haven't heard of any problems with it, only successes on freebsd-xen@freebsd.org (thread: "FreeBSD Alpha5 amd64 - Citrix Xen 6.2 problem"). Thanks!
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