[Xen-devel] Linux 3.18 no longer boots under Xen, Xen CI dropping it

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Linux 3.18 no longer boots under Xen.

This has been true for over half a year.  The Xen project CI has been
sending automatic mails including bisection reports (see below).
I emailed Xen kernel folks and got no takers for fixing this.

Unless this is fixed soon, or at least someone shows some inclination
to investigate this regression, I intend to drop all testing of this
"stable" branch.  It has rotted and no-one is fixing it.

> >> > *** Found and reproduced problem changeset ***
> >> > 
> >> >   Bug is in tree:  linux 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
> >> >   Bug introduced:  6b1ae527b1fdee86e81da0cb26ced75731c6c0fa
> >> >   Bug not present: ba6984fc0162f24a510ebc34e881b546b69c553b
> >> >   Last fail repro: 
> >> > http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/136574/ 
> > 
> > It seems that there is something wrong with the IGB driver.

Additionally, Jan Beulich writes:
> Which in turn reminds me of a patch of mine that was backported
> (and spotted by an earlier bisection), and that I've suggested
> (twice already iirc) was either backported in error, or without some
> further necessary changes. Iirc the stable tree maintainer for that
> branch was Cc-ed back then, and if so I'd conclude he doesn't care.

Thanks,
Ian.

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