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xen-users
Re: [Xen-users] Debian dropping xen support?
It may be of some assistance that 2.6.20-1-xen-xxx packages are in the
backports repository, including header packages and source. I am quite
curious about the maintainer message you found...
Tom
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Tony Hoyle wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to recompile a module and needed the kernel source.. but it
wasn't to be found in the debian archives at all - it's like it had vanished
off the face of the planet. The old 2.6.18 code is there but as that doesn't
support newer motherboards it's no use to me. I can
find no official statement but this single line from the kernel maintainer
(at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418783)
"2.6.20 is dropped from the archive and no xen support exists in newer
kernels." That's it. No mention of support being 'delayed' or anyting, just
no support.
That reads to me as if xen is dead on debian.. without kernel support it's
pretty useless. Any ideas why they took this decision? There's nothing on
the debian development archives that I can see.
It's left me hosed - I can't build a device driver without headers and they
deleted all the xen related 2.6.20 kernel packages without warning, so I'm
left with a kernel I can't build drivers for without going outside the
package management system and handcrafting my own (something I used to do but
it's too frought with error.. haven't done it for a long while now).
Tony
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