[Fedora-xen] BZIP2 and LZMA support patch for Xen PV domU bootloader

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:41 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set
> > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
> > > > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y
> > > > 
> > > > OK, so the problem is the rawhide kernel is LZMA compressed. Wasn't this
> > > > changed back to GZIP earlier? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for pointing that out, see:
> > > 
> > >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515831
> > > 
> > > It got disabled on a branch for the F12 Alpha release, but never got
> > > disabled on the devel/ branch. Should be fixed now.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks. Now I'll just wait for the next kernel build.. :)
> > 
> > (or try applying the patch Chris sent to support BZIP2 and LZMA for Xen PV bootloader).
> 
> Testing Chris's patch would certainly be a good idea. LZMA will come
> back again in Fedora 13, so we should make sure to have the patch in
> good shape by then
> 

I actually already 'ported' the patch to Xen 3.4.1 and made sure it
compiles OK. I've included it (and extra gcc 4.4.0 compilefix) to this
email, and also sent them to xen-devel.

atm I'm trying to make the patch work/apply with Fedora xen-3.4.1-1 src.rpm ..
and sorting out some fedora/rpm specific compilation failure..

-- Pasi
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