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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:37:54PM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Now that pv_ops dom0 is getting close to being 'ready' for 2.6.32,
> > it would be nice to have xenlinux patches for 2.6.32 aswell.. :)
> >
> > I'm planning to compare and benchmark against each other..
> >
> > I can give the novell patches a go myself, but always easier if someone
> > who already knows the stuff does it..
> >
> > I'm probably going to do some tests/benchmarks next week if all goes well.
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Pasi,
> 
> I don't think there is much point in rebasing the novell/suse patches
> for 2.6.32 because they already moved on to 2.6.33, I chose to put
> some effort into 2.6.31 because it is the kernel used for opensuse
> 11.2 and is therefore maintained for a longer period of time, in fact
> it has recently been updated so I will be doing some testing in the
> next few days and releasing a updated set of patches for 2.6.31.12.
> 

Ok.

> I am still learning C and while I can fix simple bugs I really
> struggle with anything more difficult than that, Jan does all the hard
> work.
> 
> You could identify the point at which their git tree moved on from
> 2.6.32 by accessing the mirror at
> http://www.gitorious.org/opensuse/kernel-source and then pull the
> patches at that revision, but if there are any issues with the kernel
> it is doubtful that Jan would be interested unless the issue affects
> 2.6.33/head as well.
> 

Yeah.. I might do that.

> If you like I will rebase the current patches for 2.6.33-rcX as they
> are in the git mirror now, I plan to track whichever kernel is used
> for opensuse 11.3, currently that looks like being 2.6.33 but that may
> change.
> 

I'm sure 2.6.33 rebased patches will be useful for many users, so why not. 

2.6.32 will be the 'long term' maintained stable kernel and 
shipping in multiple distros though.

-- Pasi


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