From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Ayres Subject: Re: Xen 3.0.1 plans? xen-3.0-testing status? Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:02:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43B48741.2080600@tektonic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pasi_K=E4rkk=E4?= List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org James Harper wrote: >>> What's the state of xen-3.0-testing? Is it working OK for >>> you? Better than 3.0.0 ? Please post your comments! >> 3.0-testing has a number of bug fixes in it over 3.0.0 -- it should >> definitely be used in preference to 3.0.0. It's effectively a 3.0.0.x >> series. > > Ah the world of open source... where anything tagged 'stable' probably shouldn't be used because it is either a) too old, or b) too buggy. > > But we wouldn't have it any other way. > > Maybe that memory leak which crashes my dom0 has been fixed... I'll have to give -testing a go. > 3.0-testing is nice. There have not been many backports to it lately from -unstable. I know a patch I received from Ian that fixes issues with 3ware cards is not even on -unstable, I had hoped it'd be in 3.0-testing by now. I'm half-considering just running -unstable util 3.0.2/3 so I get the latest fixes :)