(OT) Re: 2.6.20 for FC6?
dragoran
drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 08:39:51 UTC 2007
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:04PM -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > > It gets better...
> > > http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3658001
> > >
> > > "Pratt also explained that Xen is no longer actively seeking inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel either."
> > Oh, swell. So a 2.6.20 kernel for FC5 is DOA. :-(
>
> Not really. The rebases over the last year or two have been done by
> Red Hat, not Xensource. By the time the 'official' Xen tree is
> updated, it's based on some six month old kernel which is uninteresting.
> So sit tight and wait for the Xen team to do their magic.
> (Largely the work of Juan Quintela, who succeeds in doing in a month
> what takes Xensource half a year to do)
>
>
I don't know how Juan handles this but wouldn't it be easier to port xen
during a kernel development cycle and not after the kernel is released?
If there are some last minute changes they wont be that big. I assume
that this will save a lot of time (if not already done).
> Dave
>
>
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