On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/07/08 at 11:24 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Anything else can be considered more or less broken. > It seems that Ubuntu 8.04 shipped with a 2.6.24 domU. So Ubuntu is > the only distro shipping a dom0 based on Linux >> 2.6.18? How did they > achieve this? :-) FC8 ships a forward ported 2.6.22, Ubuntu 8.04 a forward ported 2.6.24. They pushed work into it and got something which works more or less good. The Ubuntu patch never worked for me. > > It will ship the hypervisor and a domU kernel. For dom0 it will need > > either the etch or my own[1] kernel. This may be changed later if we can > > get a new kernel in the stable release. > The problem I see with that is that people will be left without a > supported dom0 kernel at some point during the etch lifetime. Which is at least lenny + 1 year, which gives us some time. > Do we have > a plan to address that? Shouldn't we make it clear that we will support > the etch kernel until a lenny+1/2 kernel is available, for example? -security is needed for this. > Also, can you use the Xen 3.2 features with the etch kernel, or are you > somehow limited? It does not support power management, but otherwise it works. > Wouldn't it be a good idea to ship a linux 2.6.18 kernel in lenny, only > for dom0, so it's clear that it is supported? This needs redefining of the rule that we don't longer want multiple kernels in a stable release. But should be possible if -release and -security don't veto it. Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
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