From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: Timeline for migrating to newer Linux kernels? Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:07:11 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20070102094918.GC3351@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070102094918.GC3351@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: "Zulauf, John" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 2/1/07 09:49, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: >> As for the Linux sparse tree in xen-unstable, it will be upgraded and moved >> to a separate repository before 3.0.5. With the guest kernel interfaces >> having been stable for some time, it makes lots of sense to separate >> hypervisor development and its release cycle from that of guest kernels. > > When you say 'guest' kernel interfaces are you simply refering to DomU, > or also Dom0 ? Having a separate repository / tree which only did the > DomU kernel would be little use for Fedora, because we track the latest > upstream kernels for both Dom0 and DomU. So I'd hope the separate kernel > tree would cover Dom0 & DomU - is this what's planned ? We will have a separate repository that has the same feature set as the current integrated sparse tree -- i.e., it will support both dom0 and domU. -- Keir