Bug#695056: [Xen-devel] [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels
On 04.12.12 at 11:12, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk 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. Just did this on the hypervisor side (i.e. for Dom0). Unless told otherwise I'm going to assume that IanJ will take care of the DomU (tools side) part. Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#695056: [Xen-devel] [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 11:33 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 04.12.12 at 11:12, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk 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. Just did this on the hypervisor side (i.e. for Dom0). Unless told otherwise I'm going to assume that IanJ will take care of the DomU (tools side) part. Which FWIW is 23002:eb64b8f8eebb but it very likely requires portions of 23021:da7c950772ed, 23322:d9982136d8fa and 26115:37a8946eeb9d which are fixes (some security sensitive) in that code. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Katatonia - The Longest Year Staff meeting in the conference room in %d minutes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#695056: [Xen-devel] [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk 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. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Anthrax - Stealing From A Thief Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#695056: [Xen-devel] [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:12:16AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
