Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 08/11/2010 07:23 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Your patch had mangled spacing around operators. This seems to be a bug in recent versions of Thunderbird, possibly related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571502. I was able to fix it up in this case as the context is obvious, but

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 03:31 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Would it be possible to apply the attached Fedora/Ubuntu kernel patch to Debian as well? The Fedora link is:

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 08/11/2010 01:53 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 03:31 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Would it be possible to apply the attached Fedora/Ubuntu kernel patch to Debian as well?

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 07:55 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: It's not clear that xsave could ever be usable by PV guests, even in principle, so its probably all completely over-engineered. If setting X86_CR4_OSXSAVE is problematic, then simply adding it to the list of things we mask out of

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 08/11/2010 08:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 07:55 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: It's not clear that xsave could ever be usable by PV guests, even in principle, so its probably all completely over-engineered. If setting X86_CR4_OSXSAVE is problematic, then simply

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor(XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Moffett, Kyle D
On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:55, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 08/11/2010 01:53 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 03:31 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Would it be possible to apply the attached Fedora/Ubuntu kernel patch to Debian as

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 08:48 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 08/11/2010 08:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 07:55 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: It's not clear that xsave could ever be usable by PV guests, even in principle, so its probably all completely

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-10 Thread Moffett, Kyle D
On Aug 09, 2010, at 19:29, Kyle Moffett wrote: In particular, I'm trying to write a script that packages up a vmlinuz and initrd.gz from the Debian-Installer to allow them to be easily run unmodified in an Amazon EC2 VM (now that Amazon supports using your own custom kernel). I can confirm

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Would it be possible to apply the attached Fedora/Ubuntu kernel patch to Debian as well? The Fedora link is:

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-09 Thread Kyle Moffett
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Would it be possible to apply the attached Fedora/Ubuntu kernel patch to Debian as well? The Fedora link is: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/F-13/kernel/fix_xen_guest_on_old_EC2.patch And the Ubuntu link: