On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:50:52PM +0900, Naoki wrote: > Howdy, > > The xen kernel normally lags behind the mainstream fedora, right now > it's about a month older : > > $ rpm -q kernel kernel-xen > kernel-2.6.20-1.3071.fc7 > kernel-2.6.20-1.3094.fc7 > kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.5.fc7 > > So I'm wondering if there is a technical reason for this and if the > versions will sync before FC7 release? The reason is that upstream Xen is still stuck on 2.6.18, and thus once again we have the task of forward porting Xen to the current Fedora kernel which is (almost) 2.6.21 :-( We had the same task in FC6, but the port from 2.6.18 -> 2.6.21 is proving much more troublesome because there has been some major refactoring in upstream kernels that interacts with Xen in subtle & troublesome (ie crash-prone) ways. I don't expect any major updates to kernel-xen beyond trying to fix the known problems/bugs. We aim to keep the kernel-xen build as close to the bare-metal kernel as possible, but in Fedora 7 development we took the decision to de-couple baremetal & Xen kernel RPMs to avoid holding up progress in baremetal. So until upstream Xen actively tracks the LKML releases I don't expect we'll have 100% sync in versions of the kernels. The good news is that at the Xen Summit last week XenSource have promised to change the way they manage their kernel trees to track LKML more closely as of Xen 3.0.6. So perhaps we'll be able to get back in sync for Fedora 8 Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
