Re: [PATCHES] 686-bigmem/Xen enabled netboot images
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:
>> I belive we should use a xen image flavor for it (as suggested
>> previously by Frans IIRC). If you could do that it would be nice.
>
> One of the principles of the paravirt_ops kernel stuff is that there
> should be no need for a distro to special case a particular
> virtualisation solution in kernel builds or elsewhere. Any image built
> with these patches will also work fine on native and could be made to
> work on kvm/virtio etc assuming an interested party was available.
> That's why I'm keen to have a non-Xen specific image. If consensus is
> against me then I'll change my mind, clearly ;-)
<...>
> Final patch is the the installer itself to cause a 686-bigmem netboot
> image to be built. [installer.patch]
<...>
Right. You basically did what we want. You've added a netboot image
using the 686-bigmem kernel images. This is what I was calling the
xen-image. It is useful since we don't need to bload normal users with
that.
I'll look into the patches and comment... later today or so.
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