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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 2.0.8 with 2.6.12 support?



On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:58:03AM +0100, Steven Hand wrote:
> 
> > Is xen 2.0.8 with 2.6.12 support going to be released anytime soon?
> > xen-2.0-testing with 2.6.12 seems to work OK at least for me..
> 
> We have a few more fixes we need to get tested, but after that we'll
> hopefully release a 2.0.8. 
>

OK.. good to know!
 
> The major delay right now is that most people are working on trying
> to get 3.0.0 out the door which doesn't leave a lot of time for 2.x! 
>

Yep.. understandable :)
 
> It's good to get reports like your which demonstrate that things 
> seem to work well. 
> 

Xen 2.0-testing with 2.6.12 is most stable xen so far.. at least on my
boxes. 

I've had some problems with 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 versions. 2.6.12 is good.


> > And we already have 2.6.13 available, and 2.6.14 soon.. is xen 2.0 going to
> > be maintained still, or is all effort going to xen 3.0 ?
> 
> Most effort is going to xen 3.0 ; in addition, we're moving towards
> a model where the linux parts of xen (i.e. the bits currently in the 
> "sparse trees") will be pushed upstream. A lot of people are working
> on this (see e.g. the xen-merge mailing list, or the mercurial 
> repository at http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6-xen.hg) 
> 
> However it is unlikely that this same work will support xen 2.x, 
> at least initially. 
> 

That's nice.. no need to worry about which kernel version is supported after
that :)

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