On 09/02/16 01:12 PM, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I was hit by that yesterday: Glad I'm not alone with this
> Ubuntu used to have an EC2 flavor of their kernel, but looks like they > aren't using it anymore since Maverick (10.10)[1]. So I'm not sure if > we should do this nearly six years later. > > This Xen framebuffer initialization delay can also be observed on > Oracle Compute Cloud and probably on any Xen HVM installation. As it > looks like you solved this, maybe we can integrated this change to the > default kernel, instead of packaging a new stripped down version for > an specific provider? I agree, I'm just not sure if that option is necessary for some users and/or platforms. If it is not critical I would disable it or compile as a module and blacklist by default. > Your pull request was merged back then and AFAICT, the need for a new > tag/release had no impact whatsoever, because James uses the upstream > code (possible with some changes on his fork, which are used to be > merged later). What happened is that he hadn't published a new EC2 > image after it was merged. > > "v0.9.9-squeeze" was tagged because we wanted to make clear that this > is the last version which Squeeze is supported, as you can see on #280[2]. I see thanks for explanation. I've just double checked: Debian package doesn't have that change yet. Thanks Tim
