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Re: [Xen-devel] Question about xen/stable branch in kernel pv_ops

To: M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Question about xen/stable branch in kernel pv_ops
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:55:39 +0200
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Fantu <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:56:14AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Fantu wrote:
>
>> I see new branch (xen/stable) in pv_ops based on 2.6.32.9, is good? for test
>> it there only to change xen/master in xen/stable in
>> buildconfig/mk.linux-2.6-pvops right?
>> I also see update in this page, for use config example for xen/stable i must
>> use "64bit x86_64 (xen/next 2.6.32)"?
>> Why is add CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND=y in page but there isn't in example
>> config?
>
> xen/stable seems to be xen/next plus merges up to v2.6.32.9 . I did a  
> build based on it yesterday, and it seems to work the same as xen/next  
> did.
>

Yeah, xen/stable is going to be the 'long term maintained' branch,
based on the long term maintained upstream 2.6.32.

See: 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg01127.html

-- Pasi


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