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[Justin Conover]

On 8/13/05, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> 
>  > > Rik was working on an update to a newer upstream Xen snapshot
>  > > last week, but this week is pretty much going to be nothing
>  > > but kernel-summit/OLS activities, so I wouldn't expect it
>  > > to start working for at least another week or so.
>  > Any word from Rik?  I would like to get back to some Xen testing on my
>  > rawhide box's when I can.
> 
> One of the problems with rawhide & xen is that upstream only ever has
> patches against the latest stable release (ie, 2.6.12), and with
> rawhide on 2.6.13-rc6 right now, that's a pretty big delta.
> I think Rik's current plan is to get the latest upstream drop working
> against the FC4 kernel before forward porting, as there are some
> issues with the latest Xen changes and exec-shield.
> 
>                 Dave
> 
> 
Makes sense, when I tried to go back to fc4/xen kernels the box wont
boot which I guess is because Xen package got updated, I probably
should have excluded it before rawhiding