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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pv bootloader support for bzip2/lzma compressed

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pv bootloader support for bzip2/lzma compressed kernels for Xen 3.4.2
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:38:18 +0300
Cc: Joshua West <jwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tom Rotenberg <tom.rotenberg@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:14:22PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 15/10/2009 17:06, "Joshua West" <jwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> I doubt it. Is anyone seriously working on that any more?
> >>   
> > 
> > The API is pretty complete, so beyond simple extensions or bug fixes, I
> > wouldn't think anybody would even need to.  Either way though, just as
> > long as it doesn't change (much), I'll stay happy as I've been working
> > quite a bit with it :-)
> > 
> > One other question -- any thoughts on when 3.4.2 will be released?
> 
> It's about time to tag an rc for that. I'll look into it next week.
> 

Keir: Please include the attached bzip2/lzma pv bootloader patch to Xen 
3.4-testing for 3.4.2.

It's a backport from xen-unstable. It's included in Fedora 12/rawhide
Xen rpms and seems to work OK. No pvgrub (stubdom) support yet.

-- Pasi

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