[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen (dom0) Kernels in Lenny

[Giles Westwood]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:11:16PM +0000, Henning Sprang wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:47 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Basicly it looks like the latest well working Xen-kernel patches are for 
>>> 2.6.18 kernel (included with xen.org releases) and shipped with rhel5/centos5
>>> and debian etch 4.0.
>> Hmm, I know that's right for Debian, but IIRC the version of Xen Kernels
>> in Fedora 8 is .21 - and I believe to remember, they have different
>> versions there for the normal Kernel (it was the latest available at
>> that time, .22 I guess) and the Xen kernels.
>>
> 
> Yes, there's a later Xen kernel on Fedora 8, but IIRC there has been more
> problems (and less testing) with it than with 2.6.18 based ones..

My only reason for trying out an ubuntu cross-compiled dom0 kernel of 2.6.22 was because the 2.6.18 kernel that came with debian didn't have new gigabit broadcom network drivers that xen needed. I'm testing centos5 now to see what their support is like as far as I remember Redhat older kernels they back compile some features. 

>>> RedHat guys are working to get all the (missing) Xen features ported to
>>> vanilla/Linus (kernel.org) kernel and submitted and integrated upstream.
>>>

How does this differ from the 2.6.22 forward patching that was done previously?

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