Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen Dom0 support

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> 
> xen dom 0
> +++++++++
> 
> Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to
> implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject
> to building.
> 

Novell/OpenSUSE has forward-ported Xen (dom0) patches for 2.6.31 / 2.6.32 here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/

Andrew Lyon has extracted the patches and made them to apply against
vanilla 2.6.31:
http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list

Announcement about 2.6.31 patches from Andrew Lyon:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-10/msg00342.html


> We also agreed to have a deprecation notice for Xen dom 0 as well as
> vserver into the Release Notes.
> 
> Action item for Luk Claes to add the deprecation notices to the
> Release Notes.
> 

So I guess that means the plan is to use the upstream pv_ops dom0
support in the future (after squeeze), which is still a work-in-progress? 

-- Pasi