On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:44:53AM +0400, 2004 ruffneck wrote:
Good day to everyone!
As a long term Fedora [Core] tester I wonder, why fedora's packagers made
multiple kernel srpms: with and without Xen patchset? Why not just create
a single kernel SRPM with kernel-*.config and kernel-xen-*.config? And
disable xen support with non xen configs? And now, when Xen was merged to
upstream to 2.6.23, what's the plan of unification kernel packages? Thank
you very much.
We separated the Xen kernel from the bare metal kernel because porting
Xen from the ancient XenSource delivered kernelss to current LKML state
of the art was taking too much time. Xen porting was delaying updates
of bare metal kernels to an unacceptable degree.
As for Xen being merged upstream, while we welcome it, it is of no use to
Fedora at this time because it is far from feature complete, nor does it
have the architecture coverage we need
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-July/msg00106.html
Regards,
Dan.
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