Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/10 01:59, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, unlike 20 kernel releases back the xen guys are actually getting
> their stuff upstream now.  Chances are pretty good that the drivers make
> it into the 2.6.38 merge window.

Good, sounds like 2.6.38 will be a suitable base for this work for
those that want it.

>> If things are
>> already /merged/ in 2.6.37-git by then, then maybe, but see below.
>
> Could being in linux-next convince you too?

In my opinion, no.  Things have been in linux-next but not merged
during the actual merge window.  I personally don't believe there is
any substitution for "it's merged and in a released kernel".

josh