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Re: Xen dom0 support in kernel 3.0.0



On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 19:02 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi to the kernel team,
> 
> I hope you (at least Ben, which I saw there) did a safe trip after
> Debconf11! :)
> 
> Seems that there's a known issue about dom0 support for the VGA text
> console in the 3.0.0 kernel. Please see these:
> 
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps#head-3d39973f716a47ae62d3501b5b578f53c67bb8c1
> 
> under:
> 
> "Dom0 console doesn't show any output and remains blank"
> 
> There's a patch here:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git;a=commit;h=c2419b4a4727f67af2fc2cd68b0d878b75e781bb
> 
> Also, I've been told by pasik on #xen-api (freenode) that "that patch is
> already queued for linux 3.0.2 stable-update, and it's in for 3.1 in
> upstream linux".
> 
> I don't want to bother you too much about our Xen stuff, it's only
> affecting my development server (on which I'm currently trying to
> package xapi), which I can by the way still ssh into. I just wanted to
> let you know about the issue since I couldn't find out what the problem
> was without the help of pasik on IRC. But maybe you knew already, and
> this is only noise? :)
> 
> So, I just wonder: do you guys are planning to upgrade to 3.0.2 somehow
> soon in SID?

It doesn't exist yet, but when it does, yes.  (But we won't change the
upstream version number.)

> Are you currently working on it? Or maybe, you could apply
> the patch in current SID 3.0.0?

Done, will be in 3.0.0-2.

Ben.

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