Xen dom0 support in kernel 3.0.0

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

Hi to the kernel team,

I hope you (at least Ben, which I saw there) did a safe trip after
Debconf11! :)

Seems that there's a known issue about dom0 support for the VGA text
console in the 3.0.0 kernel. Please see these:

http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps#head-3d39973f716a47ae62d3501b5b578f53c67bb8c1

under:

"Dom0 console doesn't show any output and remains blank"

There's a patch here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git;a=commit;h=c2419b4a4727f67af2fc2cd68b0d878b75e781bb

Also, I've been told by pasik on #xen-api (freenode) that "that patch is
already queued for linux 3.0.2 stable-update, and it's in for 3.1 in
upstream linux".

I don't want to bother you too much about our Xen stuff, it's only
affecting my development server (on which I'm currently trying to
package xapi), which I can by the way still ssh into. I just wanted to
let you know about the issue since I couldn't find out what the problem
was without the help of pasik on IRC. But maybe you knew already, and
this is only noise? :)

So, I just wonder: do you guys are planning to upgrade to 3.0.2 somehow
soon in SID? Are you currently working on it? Or maybe, you could apply
the patch in current SID 3.0.0?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)