RE: [Xen-users] xen version for 2.6.20

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Torsten Lehmann,GAST,,16.09.07 
> [mailto:tlehmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Torsten Lehmann
> Sent: 18 April 2007 13:19
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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'm not sure if there is (another) table like this. 
> 
> - I uses nearly only testing.
>   - When does unstable  become testing and
>     when does testing become stable?

At the last XenSummit there was a discussion about release frequency,
and I think the target was to increase the frequency, but I'm nto sure
if that target has been reached or not [it seems like quite a while
since 3.0.4 was released]. 
<time passes as Mats goes and does some mercurial commands>
According hg tags and hg export, the following was previous releases of
Xen 3.0.x:
3.0.4: c/s 13088, Dec 19 2006
3.0.3: c/s 11760, Oct 15 2006
3.0.2: c/s  9515, Apr 03 2006
3.0.0: c/s  8242, Dec 05 2005

[Note that this indicates the branch from unstable, not necessarily when
the release was actualy made]. 

That's roughly 4 months between releases

--
Mats
> 
> 
> 
> regards Torsten
> LAUNOC
> 
> 
> 



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