Re: What is the official source for the pvops kernel?

[Anthony Wright <anthony@overnetdata.com>]

On 21/03/2011 12:06, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> First of, 2.6.38 is unstable. We haven't completed all the up-porting effort and there are bounds
> to be bugs. So when you run it, please do report the bugs you are seeing.
>
> For right now there are two git trees. The official vaniall 2.6.38 which can:
>   - Boot Dom0
>   - Boot DomU
>   - Can boot PV and HVM guests with the latest xen-unstable.hg tree and the
>     latest QEMU (which has built-in backend drivers).
Are you saying I can use the standard 2.6.38 build as a Xen Dom0 kernel? 
If not, could you explain this a little more.
>
> The 2.6.38 in my tree(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git) has
> the things mentioned before, and then:
>   - Can be used with Xen 4.0 as it has now three backends: pciback, netback, blkback.
>   - Can be be booted with Xorg (radeon and nouveau) if the card is PCIe.
>   - Has gntalloc allowing domain-to-domain pages to be shared.
>   - Lots of bug-fixes.
>   - And infrastructure add-ons (backend, P2M, M2P).
>
> In short, it has all of the patches that just went in 2.6.39-rc0 and then some
> more. For the details look on LKML for '[GIT PULL]' from me.
>
> So if you want the "stable" one use the 2.6.32.32 that Jeremy just released.
I really wanted stable and tried the latest 2.6.32.XX from two weeks ago 
but on every machine I've tried it, I got a kernel panic in xen_set_pte. 
I wasn't sure what the root cause was (I upgraded from 3.X to 4.X Xen at 
the same time) so I tried 2.6.38-rc7 to see if it was Xen or the kernel 
and no longer got the panic, so continued with that kernel version.

I was under the impression that 2.6.38 would be a stable version, but 
not it appears not. Is there a version later than 2.6.32 that I could 
use a stable?

thanks,

Anthony.