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Re: [Xen-users] RE: Build linux-image.deb via make-kpkg for 2.6.34.7 xenified aka Suse

To: Mike Viau <viaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:02:31 -0700 (PDT)

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> I could be wrong here but I think this is a matter of xen itself did not
> always support bzImage kernel boot until sometime later in version 3.X
> and make-kpkg hasn't been updated to allow for it.

Yes, you are wrong. It has nothing to do with Xen.
make-kpkg requires presence arch/x86/boot/bzImage to be built , otherwise
it fails.
Patch applies to arch/x86/Makefile in the way which build required bzImage,
not vmlinuz , as happens without it.

Boris.
BTW . I guess Xen support bzImage starting with 3.4.0

--- On Mon, 10/25/10, Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] RE: Build linux-image.deb via make-kpkg for 2.6.34.7 xenified aka Suse
To: "Mike Viau" <viaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, October 25, 2010, 12:49 PM

On 10/20/2010 10:35 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:04:11 -0700 wrote:
>>
>> Follow up the thread "make-kpkg (Debian based tool) does not build xen
>> patched".
>> Not sure it's still important, however "kernel.hack" suggested at
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00394.html
>> by 'listmail'
>> worked for me after patching vanilla kernel 2.6.34.7 via
>> xen-patches-2.6.34-5.tar.bz2.
>>
>> Boris.
>>
>>
> Thanks Boris for the testing the patch with the latest version of the patches :)
>
> I see that the patch can be downloaded still from the mail-list archive.
>
> Should the patch also be uploaded with instructions to the http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/issues/list (source of the patches) as well for others?
>
> There are 36 issues so far on the google code site already. I realize this issue does not affect all users, but it does affect the user that compile these xenified kernels with the make-kpkg command.
>
> Maybe this is something listmail and Andrew Lyon[1] could setup as a possible fix to the make-kpkg problem if possible...
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] - http://code.google.com/u/andrew.lyon/
>
>
> -M
>
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I could be wrong here but I think this is a matter of xen itself did not
always support bzImage kernel boot until sometime later in version 3.X
and make-kpkg hasn't been updated to allow for it. Something along
those lines I believe. I think the patch is better described as a hack
though and its ok to upload where you want so as it is described as
such. If anything an alternative method or actual fix may come of it.

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