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Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.20.3 to be the next kernel?

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.20.3 to be the next kernel?
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:10:17 +0100
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:01:22PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > I found this commitment from a development fedora repo :
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2007-May/msg02474.html
> >
> > On may 10, looks like fedora is about to go to 2.6.20.3 for its xen
> > kernel (sometime in the not too distant future).
> 
> I believe the Fedora folks forward-port the Xen patches to newer kernels, so 
> this doesn't necessarily indicate that the mainline Xen tree will be moving 
> to this kernel version.

Indeed - this is a forward port of the mainline Xen 2.6.18 to newer LKML
base, its not a vanilla Xen tree.

> > Where is the next (planned) hop in Linux kernels going to lead?
> 
> Not sure.  A few interesting things are currently in progress with respect to 
> kernel versions; the Xen paravirt-ops patches may be going into the next 
> release mainline Linux (maybe?  I think?) at which point you'll be able to 
> build domU kernels directly from kernel.org sources.
> 
> Secondly we're going to move away from the sparse tree layout (yay) and 
> towards having a separate repository for the XenLinux tree.

  s/are going to move/have moved/   :-)

changeset 15204:        1712c62b913c
         author:        Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
           date:        Mon Jun 04 11:16:19 2007 +0100


Dan.
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