Xen patched kernel packages

[Chris Brown]

On 31/07/07, 2004 ruffneck <ruffneck2004 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 31.07.07, 17:38, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
>
> First of all, thank you for quick answer!
>
> > We separated the Xen kernel from the bare metal kernel because porting
> > Xen from the ancient XenSource delivered kernelss to current LKML state
> > of the art was taking too much time. Xen porting was delaying updates
> > of bare metal kernels to an unacceptable degree.
>
>
> Ok, I got it.
>
> > As for Xen being merged upstream, while we welcome it, it is of no use to
> > Fedora at this time because it is far from feature complete, nor does it
> > have the architecture coverage we need
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-July/msg00106.html
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
>
> Daniel, please, correct me if I'm wrong. In linux-2.6.23 merged only DomU part of Xen,  am I right? If I am, that it is really useless at this time.

Correct, only DomU was merged. It seems to be taking a while for folks
to grasp this, having seen a lot of "OMG, Xen MERGED!!! Ponies!!!!"
posts scattered about, although with posts like:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/21/132251&from=rss

who can blame them.

Cheers
Chris

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