Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> writes:

> On 13/09/2007 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> >> And indeed some patches seem to be applied (see below). But i still
>> >> don't see any xen options in menuconfig. Maybe the 2.6.22 xen patches
>> >> are for i386 only and not ported to amd64 yet?
>> >
>> > Based on the output those patches do not contain Xen. I don't know what
>> > they are for.
>> 
>> The newest working patches I know are from RedHat and for 2.6.20. They
>> also have 2.6.21 but I heard that were instable.
>
> Are these patches for amd64 DomU only, or for Dom0 as well?

I386/amd64 dom0/U. For the (usualy) working ones:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/

And for development versions:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel-dev/

> And where do I get these patches? Do I need to use the redhat linux
> sources and patch them with the redhat xen patches, or how is it
> supposed to work?

You have to clone a mercurial repository. Includes a full kernel tree
so prepare to spend some time and bandwith.

> I guess that make-kpkg may be used from the linux source anyway, as it
> works with upstream linux sources as well.

yes.

> greetings,
>  jonas

MfG
        Goswin