Re: Xen dom0 kernels/patches and Debian 6.0 Squeeze / 2.6.31 patches
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:50:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was reading the earlier discussion from here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.kernel/browse_thread/thread/e2338dd1590b3375/686d088bb32341c6?lnk=raot&pli=1
>
> .. and wanted to contribute a bit.
>
> This wiki page lists the available Xen dom0 kernels/patches:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
>
> Summary:
>
> - Xen 3.4.x releases still use the old Xenlinux 2.6.18 as a
> default dom0 kernel.
>
> - Xen 3.5 (xen-unstable/development) changed to using the pv_ops dom0 kernel
> as a default. This is the new cleaned up code that they're working on to
> get merged into upstream Linux kernel.
>
> - Novell/Suse has made many forward-ports of the 2.6.18 code to
> 2.6.26, 2.6.27, 2.6.29 and 2.6.30.
>
> - SLES11 (Suse Linux Enterprise) Xen uses the forward-port to 2.6.27.
> - Opensuse uses the various other forward-ports.
>
> So Debian could use the Opensuse patches, assuming the kernel versions
> match..
>
> Debian seems to be pretty popular environment to run Xen on, so it would
> be a shame if Xen dom0 support was dropped from Squeeze.
>
Also it looks like the Opensuse development (master) branch is tracking
2.6.31, and includes -xen patches:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/i586/
So there's patches for 2.6.31 aswell. Which kernel squeeze is going to use?
-- Pasi
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