Re: [Xen-users] Kernel for 3.05-testing

[Tom Mornini <tmornini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 24, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Petersson, Mats wrote:

> > Is it possible (and desirable) to build 3.05-rc2 against 2.6.18.8?
> There may be problems using the standard set of patches.
I gave it a shot, and this looks like they applied cleanly...

> Cannot find linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2 in path .:..
> wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ 
> linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2 -O./linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2
> --02:49:56--  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ 
> linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2
>            => `./linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2'
> Resolving www.kernel.org... 204.152.191.5, 204.152.191.37
> Connecting to www.kernel.org|204.152.191.5|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 41,842,273 (40M) [application/x-bzip2]
>
> 100% 
> [===================================================================== 
> ===================>] 41,842,273     8.56M/s    ETA 00:00
> 02:50:11 (8.68 MB/s) - `./linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2' saved  
> [41842273/41842273]
> rm -rf tmp-pristine-linux-2.6.18.8 pristine-linux-2.6.18.8
> mkdir -p tmp-pristine-linux-2.6.18.8
> tar -C tmp-pristine-linux-2.6.18.8 -jxf linux-2.6.18.8.tar.bz2
> mv tmp-pristine-linux-2.6.18.8/* pristine-linux-2.6.18.8
> touch pristine-linux-2.6.18.8/.hgskip
> touch pristine-linux-2.6.18.8/.valid-pristine # update timestamp to  
> avoid rebuild
> set -e
> rm -rf ref-linux-2.6.18.8
> cp -al pristine-linux-2.6.18.8 ref-linux-2.6.18.8
> if [ -d patches/linux-2.6.18.8 ] ;  
> then                                    \
>             echo Applying patches from patches/ 
> linux-2.6.18.8... ;                 \
>             for i in $(cat patches/linux-2.6.18.8/series) ;  
> do                    \
>                 echo ...  
> $i ;                                         \
>                 patch -d ref-linux-2.6.18.8 -p1 --quiet <patches/ 
> linux-2.6.18.8/$i || exit 1 ; \
>               
> done ;                                                    \
>         fi
Agreed?

This makes me a bit nervous though:

> scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86_64/Kconfig
> .config:3106:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol  
> XEN_COMPAT_030002
> .config:3107:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol  
> XEN_COMPAT_030004
> .config:3110:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_UTIL
> .config:3111:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BALLOON
> .config:3112:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_DEVMEM
> .config:3113:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_REBOOT
Is this related perhaps?

Also, is there any reason why 3.05rc2 *doesn't* default to 2.6.18.8?

If not, should I submit a patch?

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