svn commit: r256423 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront

[Adam McDougall]

On 11/21/2013 17:23, Adam McDougall wrote:
> 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 at 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.
> 

Is it safe to MFC this for 9 as well?  I checked to verify it doesn't
seem to be there:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c?revision=251973&view=markup
I think Mark has been using a local patch for a while.  Thanks.