On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > > > xen dom 0 > > +++++++++ > > > > Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to > > implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject > > to building. > > > > Novell/OpenSUSE has forward-ported Xen (dom0) patches for 2.6.31 / 2.6.32 here: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/ We know. > Andrew Lyon has extracted the patches and made them to apply against > vanilla 2.6.31: > http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list And Bastian Blank has done the same for Debian. > Announcement about 2.6.31 patches from Andrew Lyon: > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-10/msg00342.html The question remains open who will be willing and able to support them over the lifetime of a Debian release. Bastian is still interested in supporting Xen dom0 but it's too much work for just one person. > > We also agreed to have a deprecation notice for Xen dom 0 as well as > > vserver into the Release Notes. > > > > Action item for Luk Claes to add the deprecation notices to the > > Release Notes. > > > > So I guess that means the plan is to use the upstream pv_ops dom0 > support in the future (after squeeze), which is still a work-in-progress? If this is accepted upstream then of course it will be in squeeze + 1. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
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