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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:23:54 -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:  <528E87FA.7010902@egr.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <528E8272.1010301@egr.msu.edu>
References:  <201310130234.r9D2YKs2034280@svn.freebsd.org> <528E8272.1010301@egr.msu.edu>

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On 11/21/2013 17:00, Adam McDougall wrote:
> 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!

Oops nevermind!  Mark clued me in to r256757 which is in BETA 3.  Thanks
again.



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