[Fedora-ia64-list] Re: [RFC] enable xen-ia64 in fedora kernel cvs
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Tue Jun 27 20:49:34 UTC 2006
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:40:03PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> This patch enables xen-ia64 support in the fedora kernel. It applies
> to the cvs tree checked out according to the instructions at
> http://people.redhat.com/davej/
>
> This is *nearly* ready to be applied. AFAIK, the only nagging issue
> is that it doesn't boot because of the hypervisor/kernel mismatch.
> (Full description of the problem at
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ia64-list/2006-June/msg00026.html)
>
> To fix this for the moment, I think all that needs to happen is for
> Juan to generate a new linux-2.6-xen.patch from the linux-2.6.tip-xen
> repository, and then take a new snapshot of the hypervisor from
> xen-unstable. That should bring the two into near enough proximity
> for ia64 to boot again.
Yeah, the daily -git rejects got the better of me yesterday, so I disabled
xen builds whilst that gets worked out.
There's another larger problem right now - the signed modules code is broken
for some reason, resulting in kernels that don't boot. Fixing that is
my priority right now.
Dave
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