From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 13:02:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20121204110252.GY8912@reaktio.net> References: <20121203184750.15579.68864.reportbug@lumphammer.waldi.eu.org> <1354613604.2693.55.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <50BDD5A302000078000ADA26@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1354615936.2693.59.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1354615936.2693.59.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Bastian Blank , "695056@bugs.debian.org" <695056@bugs.debian.org>, Jan Beulich , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:12:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > >> Package: src:xen > > >> Version: 4.1.3-4 > > >> Severity: serious > > >> > > >> The bzimage loader used in both libxc and the hypervisor lacks XZ > > >> support. Debian kernels since 3.6 are compressed with XZ and can't be > > >> loaded. > > >> > > >> Support for XZ compression was added in changeset 23002:eb64b8f8eebb > > >> somewhere last year. > > > > > > Indeed. Jan this would be a good candidate for a future 4.1.x I think > > > (it was already in 4.2.0). > > > > Hmm, I'm not really convinced - we're at 4.1.4 (I'm looking > > towards an RC2 followed by a release within the next days), > > and doing a feature addition like this in a .5 stable release > > looks questionable to me in the context of how we managed > > stable updates in the past. But I'm open to be outvoted of > > course... > > My thinking was that it is a reasonably self contained patch (most of > the code is the new files) and without it people won't be able to use > 4.1.x with their distro kernels at all, so it's something between a bug > fix and a new feature. > > If distros are going to be backporting it anyway they may as well all > get it from us. > +1