Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.4-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Thank you for enabling the Hyper-V drivers in the 3.2 builds, the squeeze backport allowed me to test and confirm that they are not as broken as they once were. (in fact: far more stable than they used to be) Unfortunately the 3.2 kernel only contains the paravirt bus (hv_vmbus) utility (hv_utils) drivers out of staging. While mouse, networking block device drivers do work, it's only with Linux 3.3 that hv_mousevsc (later: hid-hyperv), hv_netvsc have left staging. linux-next also contains has hv_storvsc out of staging. All 3 driver modules got a number of patches before they were accepted to move out of staging. - Bug and feature fixes. I for myself have tried and tested these drivers on a vanilla 3.2.x kernel with success. Ubuntu will also base their LTS releas on the 3.2 kernel - and they imported the changesets to their 3.2-based tree. (See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/929545) My question is: I'd really like to see a well working Kernel for wheezy on Hyper-V, and therefore would like to elaborate the possibility to integrate the changes from 3.3/linux-next into the wheezy kernel branch. Although no big kernel hacking experience, I would be willing to prepare patches for wheezy if the kernel team would see that this backport would not hamper other efforts in stabilizing wheezy. Let me know if there is an interested and I'd be happy to prepare and test patches on this platform. -- Mathieu *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.2.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.2.4-1) ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-12) ) #1 SMP Sun Feb 5 15:17:15 UTC 2012 <snipped irrelevant info> ** Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=4769ae1d-f6aa-4aea-89b9-69e1ac376533 ro quiet -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41 ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.100 ii linux-base 3.4 ii module-init-tools 3.16-1 Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 recommends: ii firmware-linux-free 3 Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 suggests: pn extlinux 2:4.05+dfsg-2 pn grub-pc 1.99-14 pn linux-doc-3.2 <none> Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 is related to: pn firmware-atheros <none> pn firmware-bnx2 <none> pn firmware-bnx2x <none> pn firmware-brcm80211 <none> pn firmware-intelwimax <none> pn firmware-ipw2x00 <none> pn firmware-ivtv <none> pn firmware-iwlwifi <none> pn firmware-libertas <none> pn firmware-linux <none> pn firmware-linux-nonfree <none> pn firmware-myricom <none> pn firmware-netxen <none> pn firmware-qlogic 0.35 pn firmware-ralink <none> pn firmware-realtek <none> pn xen-hypervisor <none> -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
