RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Xen in Fedora-ia64

["Yang, Fred" <fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Prarit,

Xen/IA64 community would very much like to work with Redhat closely to
get it included in FC5 to come.  The community believes we can come out
a featured Xen/IA64 to be included in FC5.

Regards,

-Fred

>-----Original Message-----
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>Of Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:05 PM
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>Cc: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Xen in Fedora-ia64
>
>> From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> From: fedora-ia64-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
>> fedora-ia64-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:00 AM
>
>> Xen is not yet available on ia64.
>
>Xen has been available for ia64 in xen-unstable since early
>2005, was included in the Xen 3.0 release and is in every
>Xen 3.0.x release.  If you download the Xen 3.0.2 source
>bits to an ia64 box, you can build and run Xen/ia64.
>
>> I have not had a chance to look at 
>> the xen patches recently, but the last time I looked at them 
>(shortly 
>> before FC5 was released) they were not in a state in which 
>> they could be 
>> included in the kernel.
>
>Could you explain further?  The core Xen patches for Linux/ia64
>have been stable since last summer.  There are driver-related
>patches that are still evolving, but that is also true of the
>patches for Xen/x86, which is already in Fedora.
>
>I'm not claiming Xen/ia64 is "done" but it would be useful
>to have a dialog between the Fedora-ia64 team and the Xen/ia64
>community to understand what you/Fedora view as
>missing or incomplete so the Xen/ia64 community doesn't
>accidentally ignore something that you/Fedora view as
>critical.
>
>Hopefully this cross-posted message can serve as a basenote
>for this dialog.
>
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