Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:56:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:44:00PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:26:48PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:53:52PM +0300, Teodor wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > > >> > > See: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> > > > >> > > I think x86-64 xen patches are going in for 2.6.27..
> > > > >
> > > > > Lenny will not support 64bit, no dom0.. so basicly lenny can only be used as
> > > > > a 32bit domU .. unless people build/get some other dom0 kernel.
> > > >
> > > > What about the patches for x86-64 support in domU? If these are going
> > > > to be included in 2.6.27 does it mean they qualify [1] to be included
> > > > in the kernel for lenny?
> > >
> > > no.
> > > please read a thread before posting to it, that question is already
> > > answered twice.
> > >
> >
> > btw out of curiosity do you know if the kernel patch policy was different
> > earlier (for etch), because xen kernel for etch (2.6.18-*-xen-686) contains
> > non-upstream xen patches (from xensource)..
>
> xen upstream back then ported forward their own patches *and* everybody
> expected their patches to be merged. earliest merge plans were floating
> for 2.6.15.
>
Ok. This is what I expected happened back then.
> reliance on external patches is always bad, kvm is in kernel.
> it doesn't try to duplicate dog and cat, but uses linux scheduler
> itself and so on..
>
Yep.
> also if release team still decides to push for 2.6.25, which is
> possible if 2.6.26 turns out bad, you still have much less xen
> features.
>
Indeed. This is why the situation with Xen for Lenny is really problematic..
-- Pasi
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