(OT) Re: 2.6.20 for FC6?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:39:51AM +0100, dragoran wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:04PM -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
 > >  > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > It gets better...
 > >  > > http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3658001
 > >  > >
 > >  > > "Pratt also explained that Xen is no longer actively seeking inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel either."
 > >  > Oh, swell. So a 2.6.20 kernel for FC5 is DOA. :-(
 > >
 > > Not really. The rebases over the last year or two have been done by
 > > Red Hat, not Xensource.  By the time the 'official' Xen tree is
 > > updated, it's based on some six month old kernel which is uninteresting.
 > > So sit tight and wait for the Xen team to do their magic.
 > > (Largely the work of Juan Quintela, who succeeds in doing in a month
 > >  what takes Xensource half a year to do)
 > >
 > >   
 > I don't know how Juan handles this but wouldn't it be easier to port xen 
 > during a kernel development cycle and not after the kernel is released? 
 > If there are some last minute changes they wont be that big. I assume 
 > that this will save a lot of time (if not already done).

Tracking a moving target is hard work.
Bear in mind that the xen patch is _enormous_

		Dave

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