On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 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/
We know.
> 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
And Bastian Blank has done the same for Debian.
> Announcement about 2.6.31 patches from Andrew Lyon:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-10/msg00342.html
The question remains open who will be willing and able to support them
over the lifetime of a Debian release. Bastian is still interested in
supporting Xen dom0 but it's too much work for just one person.
> > 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?
If this is accepted upstream then of course it will be in squeeze + 1.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part