On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:16:09PM +0100, Benjamin GIGON wrote: > > Hi everybody :-) > > I'm not sure if it's usefull, but I merged latest grsec > > (2.1.1-2.6.10-as2-20050124225) and latest vserver (1.9.4) under Linux > > 2.6.10. > > Alas, 2.6.11 release has just been announced. Thanks nevertheless! > > Speaking of which, while Xen is moving towards being included in the main
sorry but xen will _never_ be included into mainline ... what will hopefully happen soon is that support for the xen architecture will be included into mainline ... now what's the difference here? simple, you can't run linux on xen right now (without some major patching) so there need to be some adjustments (like there where for x86_64) to allow for unmodified (but built for the xen architecture) kernels to run on a xen platform ... now as we know, linux-vserver has no big problem with unpatched kernels, as there is no kernel which will be run inside a vserver guest (in contrary to UML which is already an architecture supported by the linux kernel) what will the inclusion of the xen arch in mainline change regarding linux-vserver? not much, well yes, it will be possible to install linux vserver kernels on xen platforms (as linux-vserver is primarily against mainline kernels and strives to support many archs) > kernel, is there any chance VServer patch ever will? well, actually I do not really consider linux-vserver so general that it should be on every linux box, be it my mobile phone or your favorite linux game engine it's very specific software and I guess it's not worth the code in mainline when it is used by, let's say 1% of the linux kernel users ... of course we are trying (and often we succeed) to get various independant features in mainline, reducing the total patch size as much as possible ... HTH, Herbert > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver