[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: [Xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 04.12.12 at 11:12, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> >> Package: src:xen
>> >> Version: 4.1.3-4
>> >> Severity: serious
>> >> 
>> >> The bzimage loader used in both libxc and the hypervisor lacks XZ
>> >> support. Debian kernels since 3.6 are compressed with XZ and can't be
>> >> loaded.
>> >> 
>> >> Support for XZ compression was added in changeset 23002:eb64b8f8eebb
>> >> somewhere last year.
>> > 
>> > Indeed. Jan this would be a good candidate for a future 4.1.x I think
>> > (it was already in 4.2.0).
>> 
>> Hmm, I'm not really convinced - we're at 4.1.4 (I'm looking
>> towards an RC2 followed by a release within the next days),
>> and doing a feature addition like this in a .5 stable release
>> looks questionable to me in the context of how we managed
>> stable updates in the past. But I'm open to be outvoted of
>> course...
> 
> My thinking was that it is a reasonably self contained patch (most of
> the code is the new files) and without it people won't be able to use
> 4.1.x with their distro kernels at all, so it's something between a bug
> fix and a new feature.

Just did this on the hypervisor side (i.e. for Dom0). Unless told
otherwise I'm going to assume that IanJ will take care of the
DomU (tools side) part.

Jan