Re: F10 crystal ball gazing

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On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:39:27AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 22:24 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> 
> > Given that xen is entering feature freeze for updated release ~August
> > is it too early to ask what the *hopes* are for xen in fedora10?
> 
> There has been very little progress on the Dom0 pv_ops work of late, so
> it's getting harder to imagine it being in shape for Fedora 10. Still
> hope, for sure, but getting slimmer.
> 
> > xen 3.3.0 (or late rc) or is this still likely to be 3.2.1 or 3.2.2?
> 
> Not really important if there's no Dom0 kernel. If there is, we'll
> definitely update.
> 
> > kernel 2.6.27(or late rc) with pv_ops for 32 and 64 bit, dom0 and domU?
> 
> I would expect our DomU kernel to continue tracking the bare-metal
> kernel versions - so, yeah, 2.6.27 probably.
> 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge sounds fairly confident of having much of x86_64
> DomU ready for the 2.6.27 merge window. If that happens, our patch set
> would be quite small and I'd imagine we'd enable CONFIG_XEN in the
> bare-metal kernel and drop the kernel-xen package.
> 

At the moment it looks like x86_64 xen domU patches are going in for 2.6.27.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=summary

and

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

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