Re: [Xen-users] Debian dropping xen support?

[Tom Allen <tallen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It may be of some assistance that 2.6.20-1-xen-xxx packages are in the
backports repository, including header packages and source.  I am quite
curious about the maintainer message you found...

Tom

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to recompile a module and needed the kernel source.. but it 
> wasn't to be found in the debian archives at all - it's like it had vanished 
> off the face of the planet.  The old 2.6.18 code is there but as that doesn't 
> support newer motherboards it's no use to me.  I can
> find no official statement but this single line from the kernel maintainer 
> (at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418783)
> "2.6.20 is dropped from the archive and no xen support exists in newer
> kernels."  That's it.  No mention of support being 'delayed' or anyting, just 
> no support.
> That reads to me as if xen is dead on debian.. without kernel support it's 
> pretty useless.  Any ideas why they took this decision?  There's nothing on 
> the debian development archives that I can see.
> It's left me hosed - I can't build a device driver without headers and they 
> deleted all the xen related 2.6.20 kernel packages without warning, so I'm 
> left with a kernel I can't build drivers for without going outside the 
> package management system and handcrafting my own (something I used to do but 
> it's too frought with error.. haven't done it for a long while now).
> Tony
>
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