[Fedora-xen] New kernel-xen in rawhide

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:15:41PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:13 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 19:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:26:58PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 	Just a heads up that I'm pushing a new 2.6.27 based kernel-xen to
> > > > rawhide. This includes Jeremy Fitzhardinge's xen-64bit tree[1] in place
> > > > of Eduardo's xen-pvops-64.git tree.
> > > > 
> > > > 	Basically, Jeremy has half of the 64 bit Xen work merged for 2.6.27
> > > > already and the other half is queued up, hopefully to be included before
> > > > the merge window ends. If we can get that stuff some testing, perhaps it
> > > > might help the cause of getting it merged.
> > > > 
> > > > 	This is all irrelevant if the build fails, of course :-)
> > > 
> > > Seems to have succeeded, so how about putting it into the real kernel
> > > RPM directly, and finally kill kernel-xen as an RPM :-)
> > 
> > Yes, I'd very much like to make that happen soon.
> > 
> > There are two considerations, though:
> > 
> >   1) The second half of the xen x86_64 DomU work has not yet been 
> >      merged upstream. It's a fairly big patch:
> > 
> >        49 files changed, 2344 insertions(+), 913 deletions(-)
> > 
> >      so, if it doesn't get merged,
> 
> Sweet, Ingo has just pushed it up to Linus:
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/21/201
> 

That's really nice progress with upstream merging..

I still think it might be a good idea to keep separate kernel-xen until
upstream has "all" the needed features.. 

Like said, adding dom0 patches should be easier to separate rpm? 

-- Pasi