[Xen-users] Re: rebased Xen kernel patches for 2.6.32

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:52:16PM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Andy: Have you planned to release rebased patched against kernel.org 2.6.32 
> > kernel?
> >
> > Debian folks are going to release their next release with 2.6.32 kernel,
> > and they're looking for patches..
> >
> > OpenSUSE kotd seems to have patches available..
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Pasi,
> 
> I've not looked at 2.6.32 yet, I wanted to make absolutely sure that
> the problems with 2.6.31 were fixed before I try .32 as I plan to drop
> the 2.6.29 ebuild at the same time as releasing the final 2.6.31
> ebuild (which will be 2.6.31.12), .31 seems to be rock solid since Jan
> fixed the swiotlb problem.
> 

Ok. I'll forward this info to the Debian guys.

> I might have time next week, its quite a simple process to cherry pick
> the minimal set of openSUSE patches and adjust them to apply to
> vanilla, actually going through all of the patches and reviewing them
> would be a huge task!, I feel guilty when people thank me for the
> effort as its  99.9% Jan's work and 0.1% my own, but I guess it saves
> people some effort and increases the volume of testing that the
> patches receive.
> 

Huge thanks to Jan, and big thanks to you :)

> By the way they now have a gitorious mirror so there is no need to
> download rpm's and extract the patches from them.
> 
> http://gitorious.org/opensuse/kernel-source/commits/master
> 

Good to know.

-- Pasi



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