From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] xen: don't drop NX bit
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:51:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4856EE79.1000205@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616223508.GA1165@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> While it's great that you tell the stable people about this, but is it
> realistic? Is anyone using Xen as contained in the mainline kernel
> these days?
>
Yes, it's what Redhat is shipping in Fedora 9.
> If a distro were to be based on 2.6.25 and we take this patch, they will
> just revert it back out due to their very large Xen patchset they apply
> on top to get a "working" Xen version, right?
>
No. RH is using upstream Xen now. I don't know what the other distros
are doing, but Novell is considering it, at least.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 22:01 [PATCH 2/2] xen: don't drop NX bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-16 22:35 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-06-16 22:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-06-16 23:37 ` Greg KH
2008-06-17 23:14 ` Chris Wright
2008-06-17 23:13 ` Chris Wright
2008-06-20 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
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