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Re: Uploading linux-2.6 2.6.37-1 to unstable



On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 19:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:54:24PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> > > The backend drivers have not yet been merged, so it's not yet very
> > > useful as dom0.
> > 
> > ok. Is there still hope that they will get merged before wheezy is
> > released or would now be a good time to start looking at KVM migration
> > plans?
> 
> I think they will, e.g. netback is going through review now and I would
> expect it to be merged in time for 2.6.39.

Yes, I'm actively working on it and hope to get it in for 2.6.39.

> Apparently Linux 2.6.38 will have enough functionality in dom0 that
> blkback and netback can be implemented in userland in qemu.

I think that's the case, yes.

The qemu-xen in Squeeze doesn't have the backends, in case someone was
planning to try a new kernel on Squeeze.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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