[Fedora-xen] Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Re: Four ways RH could helpwith xen-ia64

[Akio Takebe]

Hi, Aron and Prarit

Thank you for your explanation.
I confused bacause there are some tree.

But I'm clear now. Thanks again.
I'll work on http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/linux-2.6-xen-fedora
by using BZ 199684 patch.

I have two other question.
Where from is the above tree? xen-unstable? xen-ia64-unstble?
And which cset is the above tree base on?

I don't know which xen I should use.

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe

>Akio Takebe wrote:  [Wed Jul 26 2006, 08:12:38AM EDT]
>> Thank you for your reply.
>> I'm still a little confused about the way of FC6-xen/IPF contribution.
>
>I'm sorry, I know that it's confusing.  There are multiple ways to
>work on the kernel tree.  I'll try to provide some steps below.
>
>> I'd like to make sure the way.
>> 
>> - Background
>> 
>>    we need to try this tree
>>    http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/linux-2.6-xen-fedora
>>    Because #1's tree is not work on xen-ia64.
>>    we need to try compile and build the tree 
>>    with the latest patche of BZ#199684.
>
>That's essentially correct.  The tree above is used to generate the
>linux-2.6-xen.patch which is used in the Fedora rpm.  If we make that
>tree work with the Fedora ia64 config, and the Fedora xen-ia64 config,
>then everything should work well.
>
>Here is another approach, though, which moves us closer to the final
>product.  The Fedora kernel cvs tree is available via instructions
>from http://people.redhat.com/davej/
>
>I took that tree and imported it to mercurial.  The result is
>http://free.linux.hp.com/~agriffis/kernel-cvs/
>
>Next I cloned that tree, added the bugzilla 199684 patch (which
>includes your work), plus the minor kernel-2.6.spec modifications and
>created another mercurial tree which is
>http://free.linux.hp.com/~agriffis/kernel-cvs-ia64/
>
>So the final result is that you can:
>
>    hg clone http://free.linux.hp.com/~agriffis/kernel-cvs-ia64/
>    cd kernel-cvs-ia64/devel
>    make ia64
>
>This will build an ia64 kernel and attempt to build a xen kernel.
>Watch it break, figure it out, contribute to the patch, send back
>a diff!
>
>I hope that helps.  Thanks for your assistance.
>
>Regards,
>Aron