On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:21:58PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > - Add smp alternatives patch[1] from akpm tree (this may be merged > > > anyway in the next time), and remove UP flavours in favour. > > > > Do we know about the cave-ats of this ? What is the status of the merge of > > this feature ? does it work on non-x86 ? > > It is in the -mm tree. It only affects i386. > > > > - Add xen images (this needs support for splitting modules/image). > > > > Why splitting modules/images ? > > A xen guest needs the modules but the image needs to be on the host > (dom0) system.
What about having some kind of postinst script moving the image in the right place instead ? This is no different from a netbooted machine, or one using NFSROOT. Naturally, the difficulty, is to be able to move the kernel image from inside the xen guest to the host system, which is not supposed to be possible, maybe some kind of setup where the host system symlinks the images to the guest system kernel or something ? I don't believe that splitting the image/modules is a good thing to do, not that it is waranted in this case. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
