I am a new subscriber and have been following the BUGS.
I also am very confused and upset with how Debian development and bug
efforts regarding XEN seem to be avoided. I have followed XEN
development and bugs since the onset and attempted in vain to create any
interest in the debian-user list. At the time ETCH was released I spoke
to an individual in Xen development who was also concerned and he said
he would pressure release people in Debian to make some kind of special
allowance to add XEN into the ETCH distribution -- apparently he was
successful but there appears to be little effort to go further (to
incorporate changes and bugs) because of the way the release mechanism
works for Debian releases. So it appears -- until the next official
Debian release -- there will be no more changes.
There has to be a way to be a way of handling the situation for projects
external to Debian but need to be part of Debian. I suggest possibly
something like an unofficial release overlay such that these special
releases get utilized into the distribution but have no official
sanction -- which I think Ubuntu has essentially done. Ubuntu has
sufficient independence from Debian that it can deal with these kind of
issues it's own way. Debian should also have that kind of flexibility
but in a way that does not disrupt Debian releases. With all the
brilliant Debian developers, maintainers, and people with experience I
can not see how this kind of situation can persist.
Thanks -- Ted Hilts
Otavio Salvador wrote:
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
* Brian Almeida:
I've been unable to find an official debian kernel which has
Xen supporter after 2.6.18-5 (released with etch). While I realize
there were changes in later kernels that complicated the patches,
Ubuntu has had Xen support for 2.6.22 for nearly 3 months (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/132726).
Can you please integrate their Xen patchesets into the official Debian
kernels?
The XenSource upstream is sort-of defunct these days. For some
background information, see:
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html>
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops>
Indeed.
Looks like XEN will have bad days until it's done for paravirt_ops
then :-)
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