On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 10:34 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 03:36 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > OK, please can someone provide text for this? Note it will need to go > > in the meta-packages built by linux-latest, not the kernel image > > packages themselves, because apt-showchanges never shows NEWS for a > > new binary package. > > Not sure if anyone did this since Alioth is down but how about: > > The kernel image is now compressed using xz compression. > Normally this should be transparent however if you are running > under a virtualisation system, such as Xen, which wants to > decompress the kernel itself then you will need to ensure that > the system is up to date and includes support for such kernels. > > See https://wiki.debian.org/Xen#unknown_compression_format for > more information. > > Can this be added to the x86 images only? > > The wiki link needs to be filled in also. Something like, under the > "common errors" section of wiki.d.o/Xen: > > ERROR Invalid kernel: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format > xc_dom_bzimageloader.c:394: panic: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: unknown compression format > > This indicates that your toolstack is not able to cope with the > compression scheme used by the kernel binary. [Link to Bug # > 727736]. Most commonly this occurs with newer kernels which use > xz compression when booting on older Xen installations. Debian > switched to xz compression after Wheezy from package version > 3.6.8-1~experimental.1 onwards. > > Xz is supported by the version of Xen in Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) > onwards. If you are running Debian guests on a non-Debian host > then you will need to consult the non-Debian host's provider. > > See also: > > Amazon Web Services : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedKernels.html > [... more to come ...] I've now added something along these lines. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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