On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 01:37 +0000, Mike Sterling wrote: > On Monday, May 14, 2012 3:22 PM, Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk] wrote: > > > > Let me introduce myself - my team is part of the Open Source > > > Technology Center at Microsoft, and we're responsible for a set of > > > drivers in the Linux kernel to provide an optimized experience for > > > running paravirtualized Linux on top of Microsoft's hypervisor, > > > Hyper-V. The drivers have exited the kernel as of 3.4 and now exist in > > > the following locations: > > > > > > /drivers/hv (core Hyper-V bus driver, provides communication between > > > Dom0 and DomU, as well as the hv_utils driver, which provides time > > > synchronization, heartbeat, and integrated shutdown) > > > /drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c (storage driver) /drivers/net/hyperv > > > (network driver) /tools/hv (KVP - key value pair exchange, a way to > > > pass messages and datagrams between virtual machines and the root) > > > > > > We've done a lot of work with Andy Whitcroft at Canonical to get the > > > drivers integrated into Ubuntu 12.04 and higher. What we'd like to > > > discuss is doing the same thing for Debian. > > > > > > What would be the best way to start or discuss this effort? > > > > The drivers were already updated (in 3.2.15-1). > > Great, thanks. We've done some investigation into the current status > of Wheezy on Hyper-V, and as of 3.2.0-2, there's about a five patch > differential between linux-next and the 3.2.0-2 kernel. How can I > update to the 3.2.15-1 kernel? I installed Wheezy using the latest > testing ISO, but apt-get doesn't want to show a new kernel. [...] In wheezy the current version is 3.2.16-1. The kernel version string doesn't match this because it's used as an ABI version and we try to avoid frequent ABI changes. This is explained in: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-versions.html#s-version-types Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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