svn commit: r256423 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront
Adam McDougall
mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Thu Nov 21 22:00:27 UTC 2013
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 at freebsd.org (thread:
"FreeBSD Alpha5 amd64 - Citrix Xen 6.2 problem"). Thanks!
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