F7 redux, and the road to F8.

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 06/07/2007 03:39 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
>> Xen.
>> ~~~~
>> This might get interesting to watch for F8 if XenU gets upstream
>> (Which akpm seems to suggest it might).  Given we've decoupled
>> kernel/kernel-xen, we might want to just disable the upstream variant
>> until F9, and wait until we have both the dom0 and the domU stuff
>> coming from the same pieces.  Will need more discussion with
>> the virtualisation team when that lands in Linus' tree.
> 
> As it's decoupled, exactly how much pain are we running into with
> various fixes (PATA/SATA, suspend, etc., etc.) not being consistent?
> 

Xen is on kernel 2.6.20, which means they need to track the FC6
updates. Apparently they're not -- AFAICT from a quick look at CVS,
they shipped kernel 2.6.20.3, while current FC6 is 2.6.20.11 plus
additional patches.