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RE: [Xen-users] xen version for 2.6.20

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Petersson, Mats wrote:

> > When does a newer sources-version appear?
> > Version 3.0.4 released at 3 months ago (08.01.2007) and support
> > very old Kernel (linux-2.6.16.33 04.2006) only.
> > New SATA driver is only contained >= 2.6.19.
> > Can i hope to linux-2.6.20 at March 2008?
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you want as an answer. The current unstable
> uses 2.6.18. Unstable will become 3.0.5 in the next couple of weeks (I
> don't know the exact bits that are missing, but it's Xen Summit right
> now, so I expect it to be soon after Xen Summit finishes). Once Unstable
> is free for any patches, I expect that the next release will be using a
> newer kernel again. One of the problems with using the very latest
> "bleeding edge" kernel is that it can be unstable, so Xen generally uses
> the "nearly newest" kernel, as that's the one that has reasonable
> stability.

Sorry,
I surveyed that i get testing with mercurial only.


- on [1] is written:
  "xen-3.0.4-testing.hg : pre-release of the next 3.0.4"
  - but xen-3.0.4-testing released after xen-3.0.4_1

- overview
        date            xen                     linux   Download
        2005-08-04      xen-2.0.7               2.6.11          [1]
        2005-12-12      xen-3.0-testing         2.6.12          [1]
        2006-09-27      xen-3.0-testing         2.6.16.13       [1]
        2006-11-12      xen-3.0.3-testing       2.6.16.29       [1]
        2007-01-08      xen-3.0.4_1             2.6.16.33       [2]
        2007-02-15      xen-3.0.4-testing       2.6.16.38       [3]
        2007-04-18      xen-unstable            2.6.18          [3]
        ?               xen-3.0.5               2.6.18          [?]

 [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads
 [2] http://www.xensource.com/download/ -> tarballs
 [3] http://xenbits.xensource.com/ (mercurial)

  - Where can I find a table like these?

- I uses nearly only testing.
  - When does unstable  become testing and
    when does testing become stable?



regards Torsten
LAUNOC

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