Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] the xenLinux/IA64 upstream merge and Fedora.

[Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> Hi Xen/IA64 developers.
> Recently Red hat publicly announced that they decided to work
> on the dom0 upstream merge for the long term xen support on Fedora.
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
> And actually they seem to begin their activity on the mailing lists.
> So we want to push our Linux modification to the upstream too.
> Otherwise xenLinux/IA64 will become rotten rapidly after their merge.
>
>
> I'd like to share informations and opinions to avoid duplicate works.
> Please comments.
>
> Some questions.
> - Is anyone already working on it?
> - What code base is best to begin with?
>   Although the official xenLinux/IA64 tree is 
>   http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
>   Does Fedora have any forward ported tree?
Specific to ia64, no. Fedora isn't officially built on ia64 at the 
moment, so it gets very little love outside of RHEL5. Last I looked into 
it (more than 6 months ago, iirc), trying to even compile the 
2.6.21-based Fedora xen kernel on ia64 failed miserably pretty early in 
the build. Didn't have time to look into it, nor do I recall the 
specifics of the failure. But the work being done for x86 is available 
from the Fedora devel kernel-xen-2.6 module. I can dig up access info in 
the morning if someone doesn't beat me to it, its past my bed time right 
now. :)
--
Jarod Wilson
jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx


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