Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Wed Nov 10 00:59:23 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:12:15AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> However for xen dom0 support to be a Fedora 15 feature we would really 
> need to have the appropriate drivers in the kernel when Fedora 15 ships, 
> so my main question is how likely is it that backported xen drivers would 
> be accepted into the Fedora kernel?

Not particularly likely, I'm really sick of carrying backports of crap
for aeons on a "promise" that things will get upstream. If things are
already /merged/ in 2.6.37-git by then, then maybe, but see below.

> I would also be interested in any 
> other comments on this proposal.
> 

What's the overhead? Why would we want to support it? What's the upside?

regards, Kyle


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