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Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?



On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:51 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > see relevant posts of Ian Campbell on d-kernel
> > > 
> > 
> > You mean this?: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2008/07/msg00070.html
> > 
> > I think the situation has changed after that.. 
> 
> The save/restore and ballooning patches were applied to the trunk 2.6.26
> Debian kernel a few days back, enabling these features for 32 bit
> kernels.
> 

Yep.

> > 
> > See: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> > 
> > I think x86-64 xen patches are going in for 2.6.27.. 
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=summary
> > 
> > "9 hours ago 	Ingo Molnar 	Merge branch 'xen-64bit'"
> 
> Lenny will be releasing with (at most) 2.6.26 and these patches are a
> bit too large and intrusive to non-Xen code paths to be backported.
> 

Yeah, I only meant those patches are queued for upstream 2.6.27. I didn't
mean they should be applied to debian xen kernel for lenny.

Like said, this thread was started to discuss about possible options of
getting xen dom0 support into lenny, and I pasted that git link to give a
status update of pv_ops work happening atm.

-- Pasi


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