On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > The v2.08 patch has been applied upstream [0,1&2] and will be in the > 2.6.26-rc1. Is there any reason not to apply a backport to the 2.6.25 > kernel? Having these patches applied to the kernel would be a big step > forward in my project of making the Debian installer fully > usable/compatible with paravirtualised guests as originally discussed at > [3].
i'd see tomorrow if the patch is easily appliable to 2.6.25, anyway shouldn't be a show stopper for Lenny as applied upstream. the trouble i remember is that we still can't disable the separate Xen images due to X86_PAE, which is not wanted in the generic 686. > I'm not sure what the shortcomings of the maintainer scripts that > Bastian also refers too are since the packages work fine for me in domU > (note that dom0 is still a special case). There is a bug in update-grub > WRT handing pvops kernels which I am investigating separately. If there > are any other known issues me I'm more than happy to work on resolving > them if they are brought to my attention. how far is the 2.6.26 domU amd64 support? > The third patch in the ticket > xen-modules-autoprobing-support-for-frontend-drivers.patch is queued up > in the x86 tree but isn't in mainline yet[4]. Compared with the other > patches it's just a "nice to have" patch since it stops d-i from needing > to prompt separately for the Xen frontend drivers to find network and > disks. ack i'll see also if that one applies fine. thanks -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
