On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:00:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > > > > > xen dom 0 > > > +++++++++ > > > > > > Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to > > > implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject > > > to building. > > > > > > > Novell/OpenSUSE has forward-ported Xen (dom0) patches for 2.6.31 / 2.6.32 > > here: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/ > > We know. >
Yep. > > Andrew Lyon has extracted the patches and made them to apply against > > vanilla 2.6.31: > > http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list > > And Bastian Blank has done the same for Debian. > Ok. > > Announcement about 2.6.31 patches from Andrew Lyon: > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-10/msg00342.html > > The question remains open who will be willing and able to support them > over the lifetime of a Debian release. Bastian is still interested in > supporting Xen dom0 but it's too much work for just one person. > I could most probably help (I seem to be working with Xen anyway).. but I'm not Debian developer.. > > > We also agreed to have a deprecation notice for Xen dom 0 as well as > > > vserver into the Release Notes. > > > > > > Action item for Luk Claes to add the deprecation notices to the > > > Release Notes. > > > > > > > So I guess that means the plan is to use the upstream pv_ops dom0 > > support in the future (after squeeze), which is still a work-in-progress? > > If this is accepted upstream then of course it will be in squeeze + 1. > Good. There are a lot of Debian users on Xen related mailinglists/discussion forums/irc. -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
