Package: kernel-package Version: 11.001 Severity: important
The upstream 2.6.23 now includes support for running under the Xen hypervisor. Defining CONFIG_XEN enables support for the Xen paravirt_ops interface. However, this is not the same implimentation as was previously available as a patch and is not a seperate architecture. The key differences are described here: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-07/msg00622.html With 2.6.23, kernels built using CONFIG_XEN can be booted natively (i.e. on the real hardware, with no hypervisor). However, when the CONFIG_XEN option is present in .config, make-kpkg bombs out with an error trying to build the non-existant xen architecture (see below). I have marked this bug as important because even without specific support for Xen kernel packages, make-kpkg should not fail to build a native kernel package when this option is enabled. If kernel-package were simply to ignore the presence of the CONFIG_XEN option it would at least be able to build standard natively bootable packages. Note that to create a package that can be used for native and Xen operation you just need to save the vmlinux file in addition to the bzImage since Xen's domain builder is incompatible with the bzImage format. $ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot --revision=test.1 kernel_image exec make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian DEBIAN_REVISION=test.1 ROOT_CMD=fakeroot ====== making target minimal_debian [new prereqs: ]====== This is kernel package version . test -d debian || mkdir debian test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building test -f debian/control || sed -e 's/=V/2.6.23/g' \ -e 's/=D/test.1/g' -e 's/=A/i386/g' \ -e 's/=SA//g' -e 's/=L/ /g' \ -e 's/=I//g' \ -e 's/=CV/2.6/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/xen/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control test -f debian/changelog || sed -e 's/=V/2.6.23/g' \ -e 's/=D/test.1/g' -e 's/=A/i386/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/xen/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules for file in ChangeLog Control Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do \ cp -f /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/; \ done for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do \ cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir ./debian/; \ done test -d ./debian/stamps || mkdir debian/stamps exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=test.1 ROOT_CMD=fakeroot kernel_image /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -lt: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -eq: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -eq: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -gt: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -gt: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected ====== making target CONFIG-common [new prereqs: testdir]====== ====== making target debian/stamp-conf [new prereqs: ]====== # work around idiocy in recent kernel versions test ! -e scripts/package/builddeb || \ mv -f scripts/package/builddeb scripts/package/builddeb.kpkg-dist test ! -e scripts/package/Makefile || \ (mv -f scripts/package/Makefile scripts/package/Makefile.kpkg-dist && \ (echo "# Dummy file "; echo "help:") > scripts/package/Makefile) test -d debian || mkdir ./debian test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building test ! -f ./debian || test -f stamp-debian || test -f debian/official || \ (rm -rf ./debian && mkdir ./debian) test -f stamp-debian || \ ( test -f debian/official && test -f debian/control) || \ sed -e 's/=V/../g' -e 's/=D/test.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/i386/g' -e 's/=SA//g' \ -e 's/=L/grub,xen-vm, /g' -e 's/=I//g' \ -e 's/=CV/./g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/xen/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/Control> debian/control test -f stamp-debian || test -f debian/official || \ sed -e 's/=V/../g' -e 's/=D/test.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/i386/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/g' \ -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/xen/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog test -f debian/rules || install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules test -f stamp-debian || test -f debian/official || \ for file in ChangeLog Control Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do \ cp -f /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/; \ done test -f stamp-debian || test -f debian/official || \ for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do \ cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir ./debian/; \ done echo done > stamp-debian echo done > debian/stamp-conf ====== making target CONFIG-common [new prereqs: stamp-conf]====== This is kernel package version 11.001. ====== making target stamp-arch-conf [new prereqs: CONFIG-common]====== ====== making target CONFIG-arch [new prereqs: stamp-arch-conf]====== ====== making target conf.vars [new prereqs: Makefile .config]====== Makefile:492: /home/ben/routing/nsdsl/buildtest/linux-2.6.23/arch/xen/Makefile: No such file or directory make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/home/ben/routing/nsdsl/buildtest/linux-2.6.23/arch/xen/Makefile'. Stop. make: *** [conf.vars] Error 2 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-5etch3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.1.1-15 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.1-21 The GNU C compiler ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii make 3.81-2 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.8 manage translated Debconf template Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Development Librari -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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