Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] compilation xen unstable on a ia64 debian

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:55 +0200, Peter Van Biesen wrote:
> The build worked perfectly. However, now I'm not sure the kernel is 
> configured 
> in the same way the debian kernel was and I suppose misses some patches that 
> were in the debian kernel.
> 
> Do you know if the debian community is working on a stock xen kernel for 
> ia64 ?

  Debian doesn't currently support Xen packages for ia64, but several
people working on Xen/ia64 do use Debian as their base platform (me
included).  I just added a patch to this bug to get the xen-3.0 package
to build on ia64:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389320

And opened this bug on Debian elilo:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433498

That leaves the kernel (linux-2.6-xen-mckinley).  The Debian 2.6.18
kernel has Xen support for x86.  It may not be too difficult to turn it
on such that a dpkg-buildpackage would create a xen kernel, but you'll
be left with an unsupported kernel and a fairly old version of Xen.
Hopefully when xensource re-bases to a newer kernel, Debian will pull
the changes into one of the kernels in unstable and we can have
something a little newer.  Xen/ia64 is moving pretty fast, so if you
want to try to use it, I would suggest using at least the 3.1 release
from xensource.  For development, use ia64/xen-unstable.hg.  You could
try to use the debian kernel config for your build, but you might still
be lacking things from the Debian kernel.  Hope that helps,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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