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Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.20.3 to be the next kernel?

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.20.3 to be the next kernel?
From: Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:49:14 +0800
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:01 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > I found this commitment from a development fedora repo :
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2007-May/msg02474.html
> >
> > On may 10, looks like fedora is about to go to 2.6.20.3 for its xen
> > kernel (sometime in the not too distant future).
> 
> I believe the Fedora folks forward-port the Xen patches to newer kernels, so 
> this doesn't necessarily indicate that the mainline Xen tree will be moving 
> to this kernel version.

For Dan / Jeremy -

The commit archive interested me because I'm also active in ext3cow
which patches a 2.6.20.3 kernel. I hope a srpm or public cvs access to
that repo comes out soon :)

Rather than bisect ext3 back to 2.6.18 from 2.6.20.3 against a patched
copy of 2.6.20.3 to see what changed, I'd rather wait for this one. It
should 'just work' without introducing bugs due to back porting :) Just
thinking about doing that makes me cross eyed.

> > Where is the next (planned) hop in Linux kernels going to lead?
> 
> Not sure.  A few interesting things are currently in progress with respect to 
> kernel versions; the Xen paravirt-ops patches may be going into the next 
> release mainline Linux (maybe?  I think?) at which point you'll be able to 
> build domU kernels directly from kernel.org sources.

Cool, Virtual Legos :) And congrats on a "not bad" from Linus especially
on such a major introduction, I've seen many people running from vger
with their tail between their legs.

> Secondly we're going to move away from the sparse tree layout (yay) and 
> towards having a separate repository for the XenLinux tree.

That really makes things easier, a number of people already dismantle
the Mercurial tree on landing to separate the two.

I'm looking for changeset 15204 in the xen-unstable Mercurial tree but
it doesn't look like its been committed yet - it ends @ (tip) 15200 /
bd3d6b4c52ec , I'll look forward then to the next commits :)

Wow, Glad I asked :) Thanks Mark, Dan, Jeremy and the rest who replied,
and everyone for such a great free product.

Best,
--Tim



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