Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
maximilian attems wrote: Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine. From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? >>> I don't think so. >> For the record, Xen upstream[1] mentions "dom0 support, currently >> planned for Linux 2.6.32 or 2.6

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-18 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:48:57AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine. > >> From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? > > > > I don't think so. > For the record, Xen upstream[1]

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine. >> From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? > > I don't think so. For the record, Xen upstream[1] mentions "dom0 support, currently planned for Linux 2.6.32 or 2.6.33 (latest p

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:03:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 20:51 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32? > > I don't think so. > > > (the version targetted for squeeze I presume?) > > Given a December fr

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 20:51 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Removal of OpenVZ, Vserver and Xen packages > > > > These are large and intrusive patches which require significant upstream > > effort to adapt to each new kernel version. As a result, they generally > > lag av

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Removal of OpenVZ, Vserver and Xen packages > > These are large and intrusive patches which require significant upstream > effort to adapt to each new kernel version. As a result, they generally > lag availability of new kernel versions and may take much longer to > stabili

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-17 Thread maximilian attems
[adding openvz guys on cc ] On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Removal of OpenVZ, Vserver and Xen packages > > These are large and intrusive patches which require significant upstream > effort to adapt to each new kernel version. As a result, they generally > lag availability of new ke

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
There are also some potentially disruptive changes that have already happened since lenny: Separation of firmware This will cause some regressions in hardware support if people do not install the separate firmware package(s). Users need to be made aware of this at upgrade time. There is a bug r

Re: Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:41 +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > Heya, > > As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing > Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December > 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't b

Linux Kernel plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-16 Thread Marc Brockschmidt
Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this time frame. So, to find out when releasing would wo