On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:07:30AM +0000, M A Young wrote: > I have succeeded in getting a fedora based kernel to build with Dom0 > patches added. The steps were roughly as follows; > > 1. Start from kernel-2.6.28-0.106.rc6.git4.fc11.src.rpm > 2. Create a patch from http://xenbits.xen.org/paravirt_ops/patches.hg/ > changeset 2238 by concatenating those patches listed in the series file > (excluding those commented out) together. > 3. Edit kernel.spec to revert to plain rc6 (which the pvops patches seem > currently to be based on though some patches from rc8 seem to be included > in the x86/x86.patch file), add the combined patch, and increase the fuzz > factor to 2 so it applies. > 4. Make several edits to the source files and configuration options to get > it to compile on F10. Some of these, such as the couple I have so far > reported on http://bugzilla.redhat.org/ (476456 and 476457), are due to > code problems that show up because the F10 compiler seems to be a bit > better at checking for errors. > > If anyone wants to inspect it, the source rpm generated is at > http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/xen/kernel-2.6.28-0.106.rc6.fc10.src.rpm > It is completely untested beyond the fact that it compiles for me, so I > have no idea if a kernel built from it will actually boot. > You might also need xen-unstable (3.4), or at least the tools from it. Or backport the pv_ops memory ballooning support into older xen tools version. See: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00469.html -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
